HYOSCYAMUS agrestis.
Hungarian field Henbane.
Natural Order. SoLANlîÆ. Juss. gen. VZ4.
H YO SC Y AM U S . Supra fol. 12.
II. agrestis, foliis amplexicaulibus angulato-dcntatis glabrius-
culis, floribus sub-sessilibus, corollis reticulato-venosis, calycibus
angulatis, caule villoso ramoso.
Hyoscyamus agrestis. Raim. et Schult. sgst. <1. 308. Link
enum. 1. p . 177.
Annual. Stem erect, branching, from a foot to 18
inches in height; branches spreading, thickly clothed
with long villous hairs. Leaves clasping the stem,
ovdte, acute, angular, or toothed with large pointed
teeth, smoothish, nerves villous underneath. Flowers
all leaning to one side, nearly sessile. Peduncles very
short, longest on the lowermost flowers, villous.
Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, inflated, angular, thickly
clothed with long villous hairs; mouth spreading.
Corolla tubular, mouth spreading, ringent, 5-cleft, of a
brownish yellow, reticulately veined with violet-
coloured veins, the lower part of a dark-brownish
purple; segments unequal, obtuse. Stamens 5, inserted
in the tu b e ; filaments densely clothed at the
base with rigid spreading hairs, the upper part smooth
and naked ; anthers incumbent. Germen smooth and
shining. Style hairy, about the length of the stamens.
Siigma capitate, fimbriate.
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