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It seems rather strange that none of the numerous botanists 

 who have explored the Allegheny table-lands between Maryland 

 and Alabama between 1840 and 1905 should have found this 

 plant. It ought to be in the proper condition for identification 

 on the Potomac River in August or September, and in the Vir- 

 ginias and East Tennessee a little earlier in the season. Whether 

 the Potomac River plant is what I suppose it to be or not, it 

 deserves careful investigation, for it is certainly something far 

 out of its usual range, if not an undescribed species. 



Postscript. The foregoing was sent in to Torreya on Sep- 

 tember 17th. Since then Dr. J. N. Rose, the author of the genus 

 in question, has visited Hancock at my suggestion — after one of 

 his assistants had been to Harper's Ferry in August without 

 finding the desired plant — and he writes me that on October 5th 

 he found a small patch of it just above high-water mark on the 

 bank of the Potomac near that place, and collected flowering 

 and fruiting specimens. He finds it very similar to my specimens 

 from the mountains of Alabama, but is not sure now that 

 those are identical with the original material from the coastal 

 plain of Georgia. This implies that there may be two species 

 of Harper ella instead of one ; a suggestion to which the consider- 

 able difference in habitat between the mountain and coastal 

 plain plants lends weight. 



ADAM IN EDEN OR NATURE'S PARADISE 

 Extracts by Jean Broadhurst 



{Concluded) 

 CHAP. CVII. 



Of Tobacco. 



The Naines. 



I cannot understand that Tobacco was known before the difcovery 

 of the Weft-Indies, and if fo, it cannot be expected that I 

 fhould tell you by what name the Greek writers called it, they 

 being deceafed long before. It is called in Latin * * * Nicotiana 



