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the flower. The Henbane is gene- 
rally confidered as a poifonous plant. 
It was ibme time ago recommended 
as a fubflitute for opium. 
That humble yellow flower, which Paten- 
adorns the fides of this path, I fup- iiUa ~ 
pofe, you confider, as a common but- 
ter-cup, beneath your notice. But 
you will find, on examination, that 
it belongs to a very different Clafs: 
and furely its beautiful filver-fea- 
thered leaves merit fome attention. 
The jlamina you find are about 
twenty. Hence you might doubt 
whether it does not belong to the 
Clafs Polyandries, but if you examine 
the five petals, you will find that they 
are fixed, not to a receptaculum, but 
to the calyx, which is monopetaious; 
ib that it is of the Clafs Icofandria. 
Now you obferve in the centre of 
the flower, a numerous collection of 
fmall buds, forming a knob, with 
flyles: therefore it is of the Order 
Polygynia. The leaves, you fee, are 
pinnated, and ferrated; the item 
creeps, and the ftalk bears a fingle 
s 3 flower. 
