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Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 / American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings
(1817)
Hyoscyamus niger, Henbane, pp. Plate XVII-168 ff.
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HYOSCYAMTJS NIGER.
Henbane.
PLATE XVII.*
THERE is little doubt that the Hyoscyamus of
this country is an imported plant. It is yet rare
in most parts of the country, and appears to be
strictly limited to the bounds of cultivation. Its
seeds are very tenacious of life, and will spring up
under favourable circumstances, after having been
dormant for a long time. Hence the plant occa-
sionally appears in old grounds which have been
newly disturbed, as in grave yards, old gardens
and collars. About ten years since, a drain, which
intersects the common in Boston, was opened for
the purpose of repairs. In the following season
a distinct row of very luxuriant plants of Henbane
covered the whole of this drain, although none of
them had been observed to grow in the vicinity
F Wor the drawing which accompanies this article, I am indebted
to Dr. S. Bass of Salem.
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