ement egg-shaped,
sharp. Blossoms blunt; the upper lip entire. LINN.

REFERENCES TO FIGURES. These are disposed in the order of comparative
excellence.

_Rivini monopet. 104.
Flora danica, 74, parts of fructification.
Tournefort Institutiones. 73, A, E, L, M.
Fuchsii Hist. Plant. 893, copied in
Tragi stirp. histor. 889.
J. Bauhini histor. Vol. ii. 812. 3, and
Lonicera 74, 1.
Blackwell. auct. 16.
Dodonoei pempt. stirp. hist. 169, reprinted in
Gerard emacul. 790, 1, and copied in
Parkinson Theatr. botanic. 653, 1.
Gerard, first edition, 646, 1.
Histor. Oxon. Morison. V. 8, row 1. 1.
Flor. danic. 74, the reduced figure._

_Blossom._ The bellying part on the inside sprinkled with spots like
little eyes. _Leaves_ wrinkled. LINN.

BLOSSOM. Rather tubular than bell-shaped, bulging on the under side,
purple; the narrow tubular part at the base, white. _Upper lip_
sometimes slightly cloven.

CHIVES. _Threads_ crooked, white. _Tips_ yellow.

POINTAL. _Seed-bud_ greenish. _Honey-cup_ at its base more yellow.
_Summit_ cloven.

S. VESS. _Capsule_ not quite so long as the cup.

ROOT. Knotty and fibrous.

STEM. About 4 feet high; obscurely angular; leafy.

LEAVES. Slightly but irregularly serrated, wrinkled; dark green above,
paler underneath. _Lower leaves_ egg-shaped; upper leaves
spear-shaped. _Leaf-stalks_ fleshy; bordered.

FLOWERS. Numerous, mostly growing from one side of the stem and
hanging down one over another. _Floral-leaves_ sitting, taper-pointed.
The numerous purple blossoms hanging down, mottled within; as wide and
nearly half as long as the finger of a common-sized glove, are
sufficient marks whereby the most ignorant may distinguish this from
every other British plant; and the leaves ought not to be gathered for
use but when the plant is in blossom.

PLACE. Dry, gravelly or sandy soils; particularly on sloping ground.
It is a biennial, and flowers from the middle of _June_ to the end of
_July_.

I have not observed that any of our cattle eat it. The root, the stem,
the leaves, and the flowers have a bitter herbaceous taste, but I
don't perceive that nauseous bitter which has been attributed to it.

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This plant ranks amongst the LURIDAE, one of the Linnaean orders in a
natural system. It has for congenera, NICOTIANA, ATROPA, HYOSCYAMUS,
DATURA, SOLANUM, &c. so that from the knowledge we possess of