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Show 356 the) B-R 1 TSH andthey are large, andcontain a great quantity of feeds: thefe are brown, rough, andof anirregular figure. ; : It is common in wafte places, and flowers in July. AL ER BALL, C. Bauhinecalls it Hyo/cyamus vulgaris Others, HHyofcymus niger. This is the only fpecies of bendane that tive of Britain, and it is poifonousin lities. et 1 : is its ee The ina. Se! {BER AT Ts HERB AT, cy ee oy Gee Ni US. BIND DIVISION CONVO LV Oe OS REIGN 1. White Henbane. Hyofcyamus albus. Theroot is long, thick, white, and furnifhed with numerous fibres. The leaves that rife fromit ftand onlong hollowed footilalks fo that in the firft appearanceit differs greatly from the other, whofe radical leaves rife without anyftalk from the ground : thefe are large, broadat the bafe, bluntly pointed, and deeplyfinuatedat the edges. The ftalk is round, firm, hairy, and three feet high: ir is more erect, and lefs branched, than the other. The leaves ftand irregularly : they have long foorftalks, andare like thofe from the root. The flowers growfingly in the bofoms of the leaves, and they have fhort footftalks, and are Jarge and white. The whole plant is thickly hairy. It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, and flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhine calls. it Ehofcyamus albus major. Others, Hyo/cyamus albus. Thofe who, following C. Bauhine, call this the greater white henbane, defcribe a variety of it under the name of the Smaller white benbane. This differs from the other in nothing, but that it has grown on a barren foil, and is ftarved andftunted. 2. Golden Henbane. amus aureus. The root is long, thick, woody, white, and furnifhed with fibres. The leaves that rife from it are broad, fhort, deeply dented, and fupported on long footftalk s: they are of a whitith green, and foft to the touch. The ftalks are numerous, weak, whitifh, and a foot anda halfhigh. The leaves ftandirregularly on them, and have long footftalks: theyinall things refembl e thofe fromtheroot. The flowers are moderately large, and of a beautiful goldyellow: they are more deeply divided than thofe of the common henbane, and have longifh foot{talks : they ftand partly at the top of the plant, and partly in the bofoms of the leaves, A fingle feed-veffel follows each flower, containing numerous feeds, It is a native of the Greek iflands and of Egypt, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it H, ofcyamus Creticus luteus ; but he, without. much treafon, divides it into two fpecies, a greater and leffer: thefe are only Varieties, i, Alpinus calls jt Hyefcyamus aureus . The root is a fewfibres. : The leaves rife in a little clufter of five or fix together, and are fupported on long, footftalks : they are oblong, broadeft in the middle, and deeply indented at the edge. The ftalk rifes among thefe; and is round, flender, upright, not at all branched, ande or ten inches high, The leaves ftand at diftances alternately : they are of the fame form with thofe from the root, but fmaller, and not at all indented at the edge: they are alfo blunter at the point. . The flowers are moderately large, and of a beautiful yellow; one ftands ufually in the bofom ofeach leaf from top to bottom ; andfre- quently there are little tufts of young leaves rife with them. The feeds are large, and are contained in a fingle capfule. It is a native of many parts of America, and flowers in July. Plukenet calls it Hyo/feyamus p mianus antirrbini foliis glabris. Cit, WV E ED. aureus ame- All the Zenbanes are powerfully foporif ick, infomuch that many of the fpecies are accounted poifonous: none fo much as the common Englith benbane: but the apothecaries have evidence that the charge is not altogether well grounded. What they are ordere d to ufe in fome compofitions, is the feed of the white henbane ; but thofe of the black being more readily at hand, are too often fold to them by the druggifts in their place. This feed howeveris more violent in its operations, and fhould be excluded the thops, the others having all the goodqualities without the danger. The feed of the zobite henbaneis the beft of all: it is cooling, emollient, and excellent againtt pain; it alfo moderately and quietly produces fleep, without difturbing the head in the manner of the black. It is excellent in coughs, it abates the pain in cholicks, andis of great virtue againft {pitting of blood, profluvia of the menf es, and all other hemorrhages The leaves boiled in milk and water,’ and applied as a pultice, are excel lent in the feciatica The root has the fame virtue with the feeds in an inferior degree ; and is hung about childrens necks in fome places, as the piony root is in others, in order to their ing their teeth without pain. In Many f¢ ts they make necklaces, with Pieces of henba ne and Pieces of the piony root interchangeably , and relate wonderful things Concerning their effeéts. OF this we have fpoken before, unde r the article Piony, I G E- HE flower is large, and confift s of a fingle petal, {pread open, rarely j ed folded: the feeds are numerous, ed, and of and are contained in a fingle capful e ; the cup 1s torm fingle leaf, divided into five parts ; and remains with the capfe ile when the flower js fal] Linnzus places this among the pentan dria monogyn i. sya; there beingfive threads a fingle rudiment ofa fruit or capfule 1s In every ery fl we . Dr EValsSs1GOsNeich BRIS 4 1. Great Bindweed, Convolvulus major. The root is long, white, flende r, and creeping. The ftalks are numerous, round , flender, weak, and very long: they are fmooth, of a yellowifh colour; and tough, andwi ll climb about * ~ buthes till they reachas . ten or fifteen feet in height. The leaves ftand irregularly, and have | ng S$ Pp in dropfies, and other difor ofthe vifcera. The roots virtue, and they are beft f methodis to prefs out the Juice, and ftrong beer. The root of the gre, what they commonlyufe on this occ fingular, that hogs eat this root often derable quantity, without any manifett e It may beufeful in the co contftitutions are rough, not to be had; but it is not wor the thops. foothtalks : they are large, broad, cut off as it were behind at the ftalk, not going to fharp points, as in the leffer kind, and fharp at the end: they are thin, {mooth, undivided at the edges, and of a pale green. The flowers rife from the bofom ofthe leaves, The root is Ic andftandfingly Ss on long 3 footftalks : they yi are very fibr y large and white. The ftalks are 1 The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are nufix inches long : merou their leaves , It is commonin hedges, and flowers all fumThefe ftand £ mer. very narrow, a C. Bauhine calls it nvolvulus me albus, hoop round footitalks, Others, C f jor. Our common people flender, in the ma call it Beard, heac Js are more round at all ind 2. Commonlittle Bindweed. Con ’ vulgaris. flowers have and commonly ftand Of The root is flender, and has m any fibres, not fo numerous: tl Theftalks are numerous, round, green, w flefh colour, nd almoft foot long: the plant is nor port itfelf; but it does not climb amo, our corn- 1¢lds, the great bindu but not com: gles upon the g mon. It flowers in ] The leaves ftand irregularly, and are nun Plukenet calls it C rous : theyare broad, fhort, of a pale green, unlis tras cum divided at the edges, pointe d at the end, and into two points alfo at the ftalk, in the 4. Little Bindweed, head. f an arrow 1¢ leaves e, and of a Convolvulus p, Theroot is lone The |