208 ORD. XII. Solanacee, seu Luride. 
The leaves of Henbane are said to have been applied externally 
with advantage in the way of poultice, to resolve scirrhous tumours, 
and to remove some pains of the rheumatic and arthritic kind. 
NICOTIANA TABACUM. ; VIRGINIAN TOBACCO, 
SYNONYMA. Nicotiana. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Nicotiana. 
major latifolia. Bauh. Pin. p.169. Nicotiana major sive Tabacum 
majus. J. Bauh. Hist. iii. p. 629. Tabacco latifolium. Park. 
Parad. p. 363. Raii Hist. p. 713. _ Hyoscyamus Peruvianus. 
Gerard. Emac. p. 357. Petum latifolium. Clusius. Exot. p. 309. 
Herba sancta. Lobel. Advers. p. 251. Nicotiana ( Tabacum) foliis 
lanceolatis, ovatis, decurrentibus. Miller, Dict. 
« Nicotiana major latifolia. UF Bete. 
- Broad-leaved Virginian Tobacco. 
8 Nicotiana foliis lanceolatis acutis sessilibus, calycibus acutis, tubo 
floris longissimo. . Miller. Dict. 
Narrow-leaved Virginian Tobacco.* 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant, 248. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. infundibul. limbo plicato. Stamina inclinata. 
Caps. 2-valvis, 2-locularis. 
Sp. Ch. N. foliis Janceolato-ovatis sessilibus decurrentibus, floribus 
acutis. 
THE root is annual, large, long, and fibrous: the stalk is erect, 
strong, round, hairy, branched towards the top, and rises five or six 
feet in height: the leaves are numerous, large, oblong, pointed, 
entire, veined, viscous, of a pale green colour, without footstalks, 
* The figure here presented seems to accord very well with this variety. 
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