Floral Illustrations of the Seasons / Consisting of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants, Cultivated in the Flower Garden

by Margaret Roscoe

Pl. 9.

Plate 10. Hyoscyamus Orientalis.
Drawn from Nature by M.R. Engraved by R. Havell Jun^r.

HYOSCYAMUS Orientalis.

Oriental Hyoscyamus.

Class and Order.—Pentandria Monogynia.

Syn.	Hyoscyamus Orientalis.	Beburstein Fl. Taur. Cauc. vol. 1. p. 164.
—	Hyoscyamus Orientalis.	Curt. Bot. Mag. pl. 2414.

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Root tuberous—stem erect, growing to the height of one foot or more—leaves on rather long petioles, broadly lanceolate, spreading, margins undulate, of a dull green, strongly veined with red—under side reddish in the young leaves—flowers thyrsiform—on short pedicels—calyx campanulate, margin five cleft, segments acute, tinged with purple—corolla lilac, funnel shaped, limb spreading, five cleft—stamens five, inclined, shorter than the style—stigma clavate—whole plant covered with a whitish pubescence which it nearly loses in more advanced growth.