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fl. solitary axillary on short stalks.— E. B. 592. St. 3. 5.— FI. 
lurid, purple, drooping. Berry violet-black, highly poisonous. — 
Waste places, less common than formerly. P. VI. — VIII. 
Deadly Nightshade. Dwale. 
3. Hyoscyamus Linn. 
1. H. niyer (L.) ; 1. oblong pinnatifid or sinuate sessile and 
subamplexicaule, lower 1. stalked, fl. nearly sessile axillary uni- 
lateral— E. B. 591. St. 3. 4. — Fl. lurid yellow, with dark veins, 
drooping. Fr. erect. Whole herbage downy, glandular, viscid, 
fetid. — Waste places, preferring a chalky soil. A . or B. V. — VII. 
Henbane. 
4. Datura Linn. 
+1. D. Stramonium (L.) ; 1. ovate unequally sinuate-dentate 
glabrous, caps, erect spinose. — E. B. 549. — L. white, large, 
erect. Fr. densely spinose. Caps, with 4 dissepiments below 
of which only 2 reach to the summit. — Waste ground, rare. 
A. VI. VII. Thorn-apple. E. S.? I.? 
5. Verbascum Linn. 
* Leaves strongly decurrent. 
1. V. Thapsus (L.?); 1. ovate-oblong crenate densely woolly 
on both sides all decurrent, st. simple, spike dense, pedicels 
shorter than the calyx, cor. rotate : segments oblong obtuse, 
filaments woolly : 2 longer nearly glabrous, anth. all nearly- 
equal— E. B. 549. V. Schraderi Koch.— St. 4—5 feet high. Fl. 
about twice as long as the calyx. Filaments with white wool, 
the 2 glabrous ones about 4 times as long as their slightly decur- 
rent anthers. — Waste ground. B. VII. VIII. Great Mullein. 
2. V. T/wpsiforme (Schr.) ; " 1. decurrent crenulate woolly, 
upper ones acuminate, raceme spiked, segments of the cor. un- 
equal obovate, 2 of the anth. oblong." Fries. — V. Thapsus Koch. 
— Fl. much larger than those of V. Thapsus, about 4 times as 
long as the calyx. " The 2 glabrous filaments scarcely twice as 
long as their greatly decurrent anthers." Koch. — Kent. Br. Lind- 
ley. B. VII. VIII. E. 
[V. phlomoides (L.), which differs from the above by having 
its 1. scarcely decurrent, has occurred (introduced) in Sussex.] 
** Leaves not decurrent, flowers in clusters, 
f Flowers yellow, hairs on the filaments white. 
3. V. Lychnitis (L.) ; I. crenate nearly glabrous above woolly 
and powdery beneath, lower 1. elliptic-oblong wedgeshaped below 
stalked, upper 1. sessile ovate-acuminate with a rounded base, 
st. angular panicled above with ascending branches, stam. equal, 
