HYOSCYAMUS. 
Ill 
2 in. to 8 ft. (as I once saw it) in height, with 1. sometimes 
15 in. long and 12 broad ! 
Tribe Y. Hyoscyameae. 
6. Hyoscyamus L. 
1. H. albus L. Beleno. Meimendro. 
Herbaceous woolly-hirsute viscid dull hoary gr. or cineras- 
cent ; branches few remote round stiff hard or woody ; 1. all pe- 
tiolate oval or ovate-oblong sinuately or repandly lobed or 
toothed, the lower suborbicular subcordate, the upper lanceolate 
subcuneate at the base and subentire ; fl. and fr. axillary secund 
in long produced simple terminal leafy scorpioidal rac., the lower 
fl. stalked, upper subsessile ; fl. pale y. not reticulately veined. 
— Linn. Sp. 257; Lam. 111. no. 2414, t. 117. f. 2 ; ejusd. Diet. iii. 
328 ; Brot. i. 274 ; Pers. i. 217 ; Rehb. in WB. iii. 110 ; Willk. 
et Lange ii. 534. 11. albus et II. canariensis Spr. i. 615, 616. II. 
albus et H. major Dun. in DC. xiii. 1. 548 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 
546, 547.— Yar. 
/3. major ; stout and robust, fl. rather large, throat and stam. 
mostly purpureous. — II. major u Mill. Diet. no. 2 •” Dun. in DC. 
1. c. ; Gren. et Godr. 1. c. II. albus Desf. i. 188 ; Fl. Gr. t. 230 ; 
Ait. H. K. i. 389: Bucli 193. no. 187 ; Koch 585 ; Wats, in 
Godm. Az. 199. II. canariensis Ker in Bot. Beg. t. 180 ; Spr. 
1. c. 616 ; Seub. Fl. Az. 38. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, § ; PS. 
reg. 2, A; SD. c. Sea-cliffs in Mad. general on both the S. and 
N. coasts, e. g. at the Gorgulho, Praia fonnosa, Ponta do Sol, 
Calheta &c., P ta Delgada &c. ; PS. in the Serra Dentroin corn- 
flelds subremote from the sea. Throughout the year, but chiefly 
March-Out. — Whole pi. fetid, but not so powerfully as in 11. 
nigra L., with much the habit of a Verbascum in its mode of 
growth. Boot strong fusiform or mostly undivided whitish 
fleshy or a little woody, but decidedly ann., or if biennial only 
hapaxantlious. St. erect 2 or 3 ft. high, sparingly branched up- 
wards, clothed like the stiff 1 stout rigid thickish erecto-patent 
branches petioles and cal. with copious soft whitish viscid widely 
spreading hairs. L. mostly more or less hairy-pubescent and 
cinerascent, but without the peculiar pale grey aspect of II. niger 
L., and even sometimes, in moist shady spots (like the whole 
pi.) of a bright grass-gr. ! with the 1. almost naked. Lower 1. 3 
or 4 in. long, 2 or 3 broad, on long petioles, subcordate at the 
base, strongly or coarsely angulato-toothed and almost lobedor 
at least sinuate; the uppermost or floral narrower entire lanceo- 
late and decurrent into the petiole. Fl. in long virgate (at first 
scorpioidal) leafy subsecund rac., the lower shortly stalked upper 
