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southeastern California to the western borders of Texas. Its aspect 

 is very different from that of any other species of the genus in North 

 America. It occurs in the lower portion of the territory occupied by 

 Nicotiana attenuate, where the latter species is the one usually em 

 ployed for smoking. There is, however, a specimen in the U. S. 

 National Herbarium (No. 13478), collected in Arizona by Edward 

 Palmer in 1885, which has the note " used by the Yuma Indians." I 

 am very much indebted to Leslie Spier of the University of Wash 

 ington for the information that this species (identified by Paul 

 Standley of the U. S. National Herbarium) is used by the Havasupai 

 Indians of Cataract Canyon in Arizona, a branch of the Yuman stock. 

 The Havasupai distinguish two sorts of this tobacco which look alike, 

 but which they say smoke differently. The Havasupai cut down a 

 mesquite tree, burn it on the unbroken soil, and scatter the tobacco 

 seed over the dead ashes. 



The remaining four species of Nicotiana found native in North 

 America, or in the islands immediately adjacent to it, viz., N. repanda 

 Willd., N. nudicaulis Watson, N. plumbaginifolia Viv., and N. Stock- 

 toni Brandegee, are not, so far as I have been able to ascertain, sus 

 pected of being associated with aboriginal use, although some of them 

 seem as well adapted to smoking, at least, as some of those which are 

 widely used. 



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