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NICOTIANA multivalvis. 
White Columbia Tobacco. 
Seow wee 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. SOLANEE. 
NICOTIANA. Supra, vol. 10. fol. 833. 
N. multivalvis ; herbacea viscido-pilosa, foliis lanceolatis inferioribus petio- 
latis, floribus axillaribus solitariis, calyce multipartito, capsula multilocu- 
lari, corolle laciniis obtusis alté venosis. 
Caulis erectus, ramosus, crassus, carnosus, undique, ut et omnes alie 
partes, glutinosa, pilosa, teterrimè hircum olens. Folia carnosa, plana, 
ovato-lanceolata, glutinosa, superiora subsessilia, inferiora longe petiolata. 
Calyx inflatus, costatus, glandulosus, submembranaceus, multifidus, secundüm 
gradum capsule evolutionis, Corolla magna, alba, sep? livore tincta, infun- 
dibularis basi ventricosa, calyce multoties longior, limbo plano, sæpiàs 6-fido, 
laciniis oblongis, obtusis, venis alte impressis. Stamina numero laciniarum 
corolle equalia. Ovarium, (et capsula) mazimum, multiloculare, difforme, 
loculis normalibus sepids in centro, superfluis circacircum inordinatim con- 
gestis et conferruminatis, placentis semper axin spectantibus. Stylus crassus, 
rigidus. Stigma capitatum. 
We have no doubt that this plant, Nicotiana nana, and 
N. quadrivalvis, have all been confounded under the idea of 
one species by N. American Botanists. They are all cul- 
tivated by various tribes of Indians for their tobacco, for 
which purpose the calyx, which is intolerably fetid, is 
selected in preference, the corolla being rejected, The 
species now distinguished is that which is cultivated by 
the nations who inhabit the banks of the Columbia, and is 
the only sort that was met with by Mr. Douglas, by whom 
seeds of this were sent to the Horticultural Society in 1826. 
The resemblance that N. multivalvis bears to N. quadri- 
valvis is too obvious to escape observation ; in a dried state, 
indeed, they are scarcely distinguishable without a very 
careful examination; and yet the differences that exist 
