Volume 1

The British flora medica, or, History of the medicinal plants of Great Britain / by Benjamin H. Barton and Thomas Castle.

  • Barton, Benjamin Herbert, active 1835.
Date:
1845
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    xCvm. HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. Common Henbane. Class V. Pentandria.—Order I. Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Solanea:. Gen. Char. Calyx tubular, five-cleft. Corolla funnel- shaped, oblique. Stigma capitate. Capsule two-celled, opening by a lid. Spec. Char. Radical leaves pinnatifid, sinuate; upper amplexicaul. Flowers nearly sessile. SYNONYM ES. Greek uoirx.uap.os. Dioscorides. f Hyoscyamus vulgaris vel niger. Bauh. Pin. 109. Park. Theatr. 363. . j Hyoscyamus flavus. Fuchs, 833. ]. Hyoscyamus vulgaris. Raii Syn. 274. I Hyoscyamus niger. Ger. Em. 353. Lin. Sp. PI. 257- Eng. FI. i. p. 315. Eng. Bot. t. 591. French Jusquiame ; Hanebane. Italian Giusquiamo. Spanish Beleno. Portuguese Yosciamo ; Meimendro. German Bilsenkraut; Schwarze Bilsenkraut. Dutch Zwart Bilzenkruid ; Dolkruid. Danish Fandensnosser; Sodbonne ; Bulmeurt. Swedish Bolmoert. Bohemian .... Blyn. Polish Bielun ; Szaley; Lulek. Russ Belena. Arabic Buzirulbunj ; Urmanikun ; Sikran. Description.—The root is annual, thick, fusiform, wrinkled, somewhat branched, brown externally, and whitish within. The stem is erect, cylindrical, branched, covered with clammy woolly hairs, and rises from one to two feet in height. The leaves are large, alternate, amplexicaul, soft, woolly, clammy, ovate-lanceolate, acute, sinuated, and irregularly lobed. The