Pentandria . . 59 
Hyosoyamus. Gen. char. — Cor. funnel-shaped, ob- 
tuse, irregular ; stamens inclined ; caps, covered, two- 
celled. 
Hyos. Niger , Common Henbane ; leaves embracing 
the stem ; flowers sessile ; annual ; flowers in July, and 
is frequent in waste places about towns and villages. 
The calyx is finely reticulated, and the yellow corolla 
Is beautifully marked with purple veins ; but the whole 
plant is of a poisonous and narcotic quality. 
Atropa. Gen. char. — Cor. bell-shaped ; stamens 
distant ; berry superior, two-celled. 
At. Belladonna, Deadly Nightshade ; stem herba« 
eeous ; leaves ovate, entire. Perennial ; flowers in June, 
and grows in waste places, but rarely. I have only met 
with this plant in Scotland near the ruins of religious 
houses,— —at Holywood near Dumfries, and Kinloss Ab- 
bey in Morayshire, which has excited a conjecture that 
it may have been originally introduced. The berries 
are a deadly poison. 
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Solanum, Gen. char. — Cor. wheel-shaped ; anthers 
slightly united, opening at the top by a double pore ; 
berry superior, two-celled. 
Sol. Dulcamara, Woody Nightshade, or Bitter-Sweet; 
with a shrubby, waving, unarmed stem, upper leaves 
halberd-shaped ; racemes cymose ; a shrubby plant ; 
flowers in June and July ; and is common in moist hed- 
ges, where it is conspicuous by its climbing stalks, pur- 
ple flowers and red berries. 
Sol. Nigrum, Common or Garden Nightshade ; with 
herbaceous unarmed stem, and nodding lateral umbeis ; 
