SOLANACEA. 
Nightshades. 
N° 84, 
NICOTIANA TABACUM. 
Tozacco, Virginia Tobacco, 
Place—America. 
Quality—Nauseous, poisonous. 
Power—Anodyne, antispasmodic, Gre pete 
Use—The leaf in wounds, scabies, tinea, cough ; the 
= smoke in constipation of the bowels; the syrup in 
asthma, colic, hysterics, dysentery, jaundice, dropsy, 
BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. , 
Natural Order. Luride—L. Solanacee.—J. 
Crass V. Pentandria. Orprr Monogynia. 
Linn. Sp. Pl. 258. Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1014. Woodv. ii. 208. Stokes i. 390. Stes 
henson & Churchill i. 37. Loud. Ency. Pl. 136. Bigelow Am. Med. Bot. ii. 171. 
Med. Flor. ii. 245. U. S. Dis 697. Griff. Med. Bot. 493. Per. El. Med. 
Bot. ii. 322. Beach. Fam. Ph. 67. Wood, Class Book, 445. 
Genus. NICOTIAN A. 
Named from John Nicot of Nismes, in Languedoe who introduced it into Europe. 
Synonymzs.—Le tabae (Fr.) Deztabak (Ger.) Tebak (Dutch) Tobacco (Z) 
Tabaco (Sp.) Petume (Brazil.) Tamaka (Indian.) Tabar (Russ., Pol., §c.) 
THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS, 
Catyx. Sepals, four—five more or less united, mostly per- 
sistent. 
Coronra. Regular. Limb four—five, cleft, plaited in wstiva- 
tion, deciduous. 
Stamens. four—five (sometimes one abortive), inserted on the — 
corolla, alternate with its segments. Anthea pepe, : 
~ longitudinally, rarely by terminal pores, gg : 
