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to the State of California, the only place where it has ever been 

 known, and through any human agency, takes away the effectiveness 

 of this " prima facie proof" and yields another strong probability 

 that the tobacco of Hispaniola may have been carried from Hispan- 

 iola to Guinea rather than that any species of tobacco may have been 

 brought from Guinea to Hispaniola or any other portion of the Amer 

 ican Continent. 



The third variety of Nicotiana Bigelovii, the var. Wallacei Gray, 

 is found in a limited area in southern California and distinctly sep 

 arated, in its distribution, from either, or both, of the other varieties 

 of the species. Var. Wallacei is a plant of medium height, erect, and 

 much more slender than either of the two varieties of central and of 

 northern California. It has a smaller flower with more slender tube 

 and I have never seen a three-celled ovary among several thousand 

 examined, all the ovaries, and ripe capsules, having been found to 

 be two-celled. While it is very probable that this variety may have 

 been used by the Indian tribes of the region where it occurs, I have 

 been unable to obtain any direct evidence that such was the case. Its 

 relations with Nicotiana Clevelandii Gray, both botanically and as to 

 aboriginal use, are still very uncertain. 



When Lewis and Clark visited the Mandan villages in North 

 Dakota in 1804* they found the inhabitants smoking a kind of tobacco 

 never seen previously by white men. They obtained specimens and 

 seed for their collections as well as data for their report. The speci 

 mens brought back by them served as the type of the Nicotiana quad- 

 rivalws Pursh 2 and are now preserved among the collections of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The seed, or some 

 of it at least, was distributed so that it was the source of the plants 

 grown in various botanical gardens in Europe and its descendants are 

 still to be found in some such institutions. A few years ago, through 

 the courtesy of the Anthropological Section of the American Museum 

 of Natural History of New York City, I was enabled to obtain from 

 George F. Will of Bismarck, North Dakota, and from Melvin Ran- 



1 Cf. Thwaites, Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 

 1804-1806, vol. i, pp. 183, 186, 187, 1904; vol. 6, pp. 142, 149-151, 158, 1905, 

 New York. 



2 Flora Americae Septentrionalis, vol. i, p. 141, 1814. 



