Hyoscyamus

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Hyoscyamus (Greek, hog bean). Solanaceae. Henbane. A coarse, clammy, ill-smelling, wayside weed cultivated for medicinal purposes. An extract is commonly sold in drugstores.

Annual, biennial or perennial, mostly clammy pubescent: lvs. alternate, coarsely toothed, or pinnatifid, rarely entire: corolla pallid or lurid and netted-veined, funnel-shaped, with 5 unequal lobes; stamens mostly exserted, declined: caps. 2-celled. circumscissile above the middle. Henbane grows wild in Eu., W. Asia and Himalayas and is naturalized in Amer. It is found in sandy and waste places. The genus contains about 15 species, of the Old World.


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