_Corolla_ infundibuliformis, obtusa. _Stamina_ inclinata. _Capsula_
operculata 2-locularis.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

HYOSCYAMUS _aureus_ foliis petiolatis dentatis acutis floribus
pedunculatis, fructibus pendulis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 220._

HYOSCYAMUS creticus luteus major. _Bauh. Pin. 169._

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A native of Crete, and other parts of the East.

"Flowers most part of the summer, but seldom ripens seeds in England;
will continue for several years, if kept in pots and sheltered in
winter, for it will not live in the open air during that season; if
placed under a common hot-bed frame, where it may enjoy as much free air
as possible in mild weather, it will thrive better than when more
tenderly treated.

"It may be easily propagated by cuttings, which if planted in a shady
border and covered with hand-glasses, in any of the summer months, they
will take root in a month or six weeks, and may be afterwards planted in
pots and treated like the old plants." MILLER's _Gard. Dict._

It is, however, a more common practice to keep this plant in the stove
in the winter; one advantage, at least, attends this method, we secure
it with certainty.