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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... p. 288; Boyle's Mat. Med., by J. Harley, p. 544; Amer. Journ. Pharm., May, 1861, p. 239, and Jan., 1867, p. 70; Wittstein's Vierteljahresschrift f. prakt. Pharm., vol. xviii (1869), p. 73; Bouchardat, Manuel de Matiere Medicale, vol. i (1865), p. 290. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. Drawn from a specimen collected at Cherry Hinton, near Cambridge. 1. Upper part of stem with inflorescence. 2. Lower portion of stem with roots. 3. A flower. 4. Vertical section of the same. 5 and 6. Fruit. 7. Transverse, and--8 and 9. Vertical section of the same. (3, 4, 6-9 enlarged.) N. Ord. Solanace: . Tribe Hyoscyamea. Genus Hyoscyamus, Linn. B. & H., Gen., ii, p. 903. Species about 10, natives of the warmer extratropical regions of Europe, Asia, and Africa. 194. Hyoscyamus niger, Linn., Sp. Plant., ed. l, p. 179 (1753). Henbane. Syn.--H. agreatis, Kit. H. pallidus, Kit. Figures.--Woodville, t. 76; Hayne, i, t. 28; Bigelow, i, t. 17; Stepb. and Ch., t. 9; Berg & Sch., t. 16 f; Syme, E., Bot., vi, t. 936; Nees, Gen. Fl. Germ. Description.--An annual or biennial herb, 1--2 feet high, with a large tap-shaped wrinkled root, brown outside and white within, and an erect, branched, thick, stiff, cylindrical, pale green stem, covered with long, clammy, jointed, glandular hairs. Root-leaves large, 6--8 inches long or more, stalked, spreading in a rosette, triangular-ovate with an undulated sinuate margin, stem-leaves much smaller, passing into bracts, alternate, sessile and somewhat amplexicaul, ovate-oblong, acute, with large undulated, spreading laciniae; all thin, pale green, flaccid, slightly hairy above, more conspicuously below, and the veins covered also with long, viscid-glandular hairs. Flowers numerous, sessile or shortly stalked, solitary in the axils of the..."
| ISBN-13 | 9781150003721 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150003723 |
| Weight | 0.67 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 In |
| List Price | $22.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 200 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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