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56. OEOBANCHACEiE. 
acuminate entire, fl. solitary axillary on short stalks. — E. B. 
592. — St. 3 ft. high. Fl. lurid purple, drooping. Berry violet- 
black, highly poisonous. — Waste places, rare. P. VI. — -VIII. 
E. S. I. 
3. Hyoscy'amus Linn. Henbane. 
1. H. niger (L.) ; 1. oblong pinnatifid or sinuate sessile and 
clasping, lower 1. stalked, fl. nearly sessile axillary unilateral. — 
Sy. E. B. 936. St. 3. 4.— St. 1—2 feet high. Fl. lurid yellow 
with dark veins, drooping. Fr. erect. Whole herbage downy 
glandular, viscid, fetid. Fl. sometimes without dark veins. — 
Waste places, preferring a calcareous soil. B. V. — VII. E, S. I. 
Lyc'ium Linn. 
*1. L. har'haruvi (L.) ; 1. narrowly lanceolate narrowed at the 
base, cal. 2-lipped, cor. -tube as long as the limb, berry oblong. 
—S>j. E. B. 933. A straggling shrub with long pendulous 
spinous branches. Fl. bluish. Filaments woolly at the base. 
Berry red. — Seems quite naturalized on north Norfolk coast 
and elsewhere. Sh. VI. — VIII. E. 
4. Datu'ra Linn. Thorn-apple. 
[l. D. Stram<i)iium (L.) ; 1. ovate unequally sinuate-dentate 
glabrous, caps, erect spinose. — E. B. 1288. — St. 1 — 2 ft. high. 
Fl. white (purplish in D. Tatula), large, erect. Fr. densely 
spinose. Caps, with 4 dissepiments below, only 2 at the top. — 
Waste ground, rare. A. VI. VII.] E. 
Order LVI. OROBANCHACE.E. 
Cal. variously divided, persistent. Cor. irregular, usually 
2-lipped, persistent, imbricate in the bud. Stam. on the cor., 4, 
didynamous. Anth. 2-celled ; cells distinct, parallel. Ovary 
in a fleshy disk, 1 -celled, with 2 or more parietal placentas. 
Stigma 2-lobed. Fr. capsular, 2-valved, with many minute 
seeds. — Leafless root-parasites. 
1. Orobanche. Cal. 4-cleft or of 2 usually bifid sepals. 
Cor. ringent, 4 — 5-cleft, deciduous, its base persistent. 
Bracts 1 — 3. 
2. LATHR.EA. Cor. 2-lipped ; the upper lip concave, decidu- 
ous, entire ; its base persistent. Otherwise like Orobanche. 
