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The BR TH? Oo yee & BAL: 
1. Broad-leaved Tobacco. 
Nicotiana latifolia. 
The root is long, thick, divided into many 
parts, and furnifhed with fibres. he 
The ftalk is round, thick, firm, ereét, divided 
into afew branches, and fix feet high. 
The leaves are very large, long, and broad: 
they have ‘no pedicles, but furround the ftalk 
in great part at their bafe, and are of a deep 
green, and divided at the edges: they ftand irre- 
gularly, and are very numerous. 
The flowers grow on flender and long foot- 
ftalks at the tops of the branches and of the main- 
flalk: they are very large, and of a beautiful 
red: they are long, tubular, and narrow at the 
bottom. 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous. 
It is a native of America. The Europeans 
became acquainted with it about two hundred 
years fince; and from that time the demand has 
been fo great for the dryed leaves that it is one 
of the principal articles of the traffick of that 
part of the world. 
C. Bauhine calls it Nicotiana major latifolia. 
- Others, fimply, Nicotiana or Petum and Ta- 
bacum. 
2. Narrow-leaved Tobacco. 
Nicotiana anguftifolia. 
The root is long, thick, divided into many 
parts, and furnifhed with numerous fibres, 
The ftalk is round, firm, ereét, and four feet 
high, very little branched, and fomewhat hairy. 
The leaves ftand alternately, and have no foot- 
ftalk, but in part enclofe the ftalk at the bafe: 
they are very long and narrow: they are undi- 
vided at the edge, and harp pointed. 
The flowers are fmaller than thofe of the 
former, but in themfelves confiderably large: 
they are of a faint red, long, tubular, and di- 
vided at the edge. 
The feed :veffel is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous, 
It is a native of America, as the other, and 
flowers, with it, in June and July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Nicotiana major angufifolia, 
Gab Nn 
3. Short leaved Tobacco. 
Nicotiana folio brevi. 
The root is long, thick, divided into many 
parts, and furnifhed with numerous fibres, 
The ftalk is round, thick, hairy, and three feet 
high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly, and are broader 
and fhorter than thofe of the common kind, and 
more hairy: they do not enclofe the ftalk at the 
bafe, as thofe do, but ftand on pedicles, which 
are alfo hairy. 
The flowers ftand upon long, flender foorftalks 
at the top of che ftalk and branches, and they are 
fmall, and of a greenifh colour, with a tinge of 
yellow. 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous. ° 
It is a native of South America, and flowers 
in July. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Nicotiana minor. 
4. Dwarf Tobacco. 
Nicotiana -minima. 
The root is long, flender, fimple, and fur- 
nifhed but with few fibres. 
The leaves are numerous, oblong, broad, and 
placed on long footftalks. 
They are pointed at the end, and not at all 
ferrated at the edges, of a flethy fubftance, and 
of a dufky green. 
The flowers ate fmall, but of a beautiful red: 
they ftand on flender fhort footftalks rifing from 
the bofoms of the leaves. 
The feed-vefiel is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous. 
It is a native of South America, and flowers 
in July. ; 
C. Bauhine calls it Nicotiana minima. 
All thefe {pecies have the fame virtues, but the 
firft kind has them in the greateft degree. 
Atis arough and violent emetic taken internally, 
The frefh leaves are greatly recommended 
againft pain. 
~ The ufe of them, dried in form of tobacco for 
fmoaking, and fnuff for taking up the noftrils, is 
grown univerfal. It might either way be of great 
fervice asa medicine when required; but the fre- 
quent taking of it in wantonnefs is unhealthful. 
Us Il, 
THORNAPPLE, 
STRAMONIU™M™ 
(i ee flower confifts of a fingle petal, tubular, deep, and fol 
figure, and contains two cells : 
marked with five ribs, and divided into five fegments. 
feed-veffel is of an oval 
Linnaeus places this among his peutandria mon 
ded in five parts at the rim: the 
the cup is oblong, tubular, bellied 3 
1 monog ynia 3 the threads in each fower being five, and the 
ftyle rifing from the rudiment of the fruit fingl 
He has, however, 
1. Common Thornapple, 
Stramonium vulgare. 
The reot is long, large, divided into feveral 
parts, and furnifhed with many fibres, 
ec. 
taken away the common teceived name Lramonium, 
and calls the genus datura. 
The ftalk is thick, firm, upright, of a pale 
green, and two foot and a half high. 
The leaves are large, broad, beautifully in- 
dented, and placed on firm footftalks : they are 
of a lively green, fharp-pointed, and broadeft 
toward 
