$ 5 This other white Henbane is much like the laft defcribgd, but that it is leffer : the 
leaues finallerand rounder, hangingvpon pretty long ftalkes, the flourcs and feed veflels are like 
thofe of the laft mentioned. 
4 This is fofter and tenderer than the laft defcribed, the leaues alfo hang vpon long foot- j 
ftalkes, and are couered oner with a foft downines :and they are fomevvhat broader, yet thinner and 
more finuated than thofe of the white, and fomewhat refemble the forme of a vine leafe, being 
fnipt about the edges ; the ftalkes are alfo couered with a white downe. Theflouresareofagold ! 
yellow, with a veluet coloured circle in their middles.-the root is fufficicntly thickeand large :Clu- 
fius had' the figure and defcription of this from his friend IaquesfUtuu; who had the plant growing 
of feed receiued from Candy. _ , . , , , . , rr c 
5 The ftalke of this growes fome cubit high , being pretty ftiffe , about the thickenelle of I 
ones little finger, and couered ouer with a foft and white downeithe leaues grow difperfed vpon the 
{talk, not much vnlike thofe of the common kinde,but leffer and more diuided, and. white ( while 
they are young ) couered with a flender and long downineffe : the top of the ftalke is diuided into 
certaine branches that bend or hang downe their heads, which alternately amongft narrower, 
lefterandvndiuided leaues carry cups like as the common one, ending in fiue pretty ftiffe points, in 
which are contained floures at firft: fomewhat like the common kinde,but afterwards, as they grow i 
bigger, they change into an elegant red purplifh colour, with deepe coloured veinesmeither is the ; 
ring or'middle part purple as in the common kinde, but whitifh, hauing a purplifh pointall, and : 
fine threds in the middle: the feeds and feedveffels are like thofeof the common kind. Clufius i 
receiued the feed hereof from Paludutius returning from his trauailes into Syria and Egypt, where- :i 
fore he calls it Hyofcyamns <s£<rypthts, .Egyptian Henbane. J 
