65. ATROPACEiE. 
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Cor. moderately large campanulate. Anth. shortly oblong or 
oval free distinct ; til. dilated and vaulted at the base. Embryo 
annularly arcuate. — Herbs with handsome pale b. fi. Fr. dry 
but berry-like completely enclosed, as mPhysalis, in the bladdery 
cal. 
tfo. Xicandra. Cal. 5-partite large leafy wingedly 5-gonal, 
the wings or angles prominent compressed, lobes sagittato- 
cordate very acute, membranous connivent and much in- 
flated and enlarged in fr. Cor. campanulate, limb shallowly 
5-lobed, lobes rounded spreading or reflexed. Stam. 5 equal 
short subincluded ; til. flexuous vaulted and dilated at the 
base, connivent over the ov. ; anth. oval aflixed belbw or 
near their apex. Stigma globosely capitate, of 5 connivent 
lobes. Ov. 3-5-celled seated on a fleshy crenulate disk, 
many ovulate. Fr. berry-like globose 3-4- or 5-celled, 
many-seeded, dry, with a thin brittle irregularly bursting 
pericarp enclosed freely in the capsuliform inflated retie u- 
lately bladdery cal. Seeds reniform -compressed ; embryo 
piano-spiral ; cot. semi terete. — A nn. herbs with solitary or 
geminate alary or extraaxillary drooping specious pale b. fl. 
Fr. quite dry and inedible. 
Tribe V. HYOSCYAMEAl. 
The Henbane Tribe. 
Cal. herbaceous somewhat enlarged and altogether persistent 
in fr. Cor. campanulato-infundibuliform. Anth. short glo- 
bosely ovate or oval free distinct erect adnate bursting longi- 
tudiually. Fr. a capsule operculate and circumscissilely de- 
hiscent, embryo subspiral ; cot. semiterete. — Viscid mostly fetid 
herbs. L. large mostly simple. Fl. lurid y. or b., mostly 
reticulate. 
6. IIyoscyamus. Cal. tubularly urceolate or infundibuli- 
form, limb 5-toothed or 5-fld, rigid and enlarged but not 
inflated in fr. Cor. campanulato-infundibuliform sometimes 
partly split down on one side, limb oblique 5-lobed, 
lobes unequal subobtuse. Stam. 5 declining included or 
exserted ; til. vaulted at the base. Caps, contained within 
the enlarged hard coriaceous cal., urceolate 2-celled many- 
seeded. Seeds small reniform compressed, embryo annular 
subspiral, cot. semiterete. — Clammy softly downy dull gr. 
or greyish herbs, with angularly or sinuately toothed or 
pinnatitid 1. and axillary solitary mostly secund dull ochra- 
ceous or y. reticulately veined fl. 
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