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a was called es dae m commemoration of the victory 
the Rom the Jews. Under the 
tonine, but re-eftablifhed under Elagabalus and Alex- 
ander : and the name of this latter emperor was 
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ICOSIA, | in Geography, a town of Seane in the er 
ley of Demona; 32 miles N.W. of Catania.—Alfo, 
town and. capital of the ifland oF. Cyprus, tated in te 
middle of a vait plain, and in the centre of the It is 
now the refidence of the hain as it ete was of the 
kings of Cyprus. The palaces of the fovereigns, remark- 
able for fe beauty of ee eneace. are abandoned 
by the Turks to deftru@tion. The fuperb church of 
< Satie Sofia,”’ in which the Chriftian kings were crowned, 
has been converted into a mofque; and the habitation of 
thefe fovereigns, partly demolifhed, and partly re-edified 
im the eaftern is _the refidence of the Moflem, 
town is agreeable ; 
d it is furrounded by fine 
The adjacent foil is excellent, and cultivated by 
Ra ene ated, in its more ancient ftate, within a 
e of nine mies. temples, palaces, and feveral 
Beautiful aouanents and, at a later period, many monaf- 
teries; 3oO churches, Greek and Latin, and a number of 
public edifices. Inthe year 1570, when Selim II., who 
then ruled the Ottoman empire, projected the conquelt of 
yprus, it was taken, after a protraéted fiege, by an af- 
fault of Muftapha, the Turkith general; and of 50,000 
ae ie who had retired within the walls for fhelter, 
0,000 were maflacred, and the reft put inirons. Befides 
he church of St. Sophia, already mentioned, it had another 
ehurch, viz. that of St. Nichelas, which is now a bezeften 
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menian merchants affemble to tranfa& commercial bufinefs. 
The bazar, or market-place, is extenfive, much frequented, 
well: fupplied with provifions, and kept in a neat and clean 
te. N. Por 35° r2'. FE. long. 33° 2, 
NECO A, a town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra, the 
fee of a bilhars sone of Reggio, near the coaft of the 
Mediterranean’; 32 miles N.N.E. of Reggio. N. lat. 38° 
a3: ong. 16° 16! 
NICOTIANA, in Botany, received its ngme in honour 
ef John Nicot, of Nifmes, ambaflador from the French 
court Ae that of Portugal, who during his refidence at Lif- 
bon, in 1560, received fome of the feed froma Dutchman, 
who had it from Florida, and part of this he ra to France. 
There the plant foon became famous,, as well as in other 
parts of Europe, by the name of ‘Tabac, or Tobacco 
P: 
Hlaftr. t. 113 Gertn. t. 55.—Clafs and 
order, Pentandria. ne Nat. Ord. Lurjde, Linn. 
Solanea, Ju ff. Bro 
en. Cal. "Perianth of one leaf, inferior, tubular, 
ovate, cut half way down into five unequal fegments, per- 
anent.. Cor. of petal, funnel-fhaped ; tube longer 
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than-the calyx ; limb more or lefs {fpreading, with five: plaits, 
and five lobes. Stam. Filaments five, awlthaped;. afcending,, 
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nearly as long as the corolla, often oc . ; anthers oblong: 
if. Germen fuperior, ovate; ftyle thread-fhaped, as long 
as the cor capitate, Gatch. c apfule 
two valves, burfting at the top into four 
parts Reade halforate, dotted, affixed to the parti- 
tion erous, kidne y-thapeas 
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; limb five-cleft, plaited. 
Stamens inclining. Capfule of two cells, and two valv VES5. 
opening into four parts at the top. Calyx tubular, five- 
eft. 
1. N. Tabacum. igs a Tobacco. Linn. Sp. Pl. 258. 
Willd. n.1. Ait. n Woodv. Med. Bot. t. 60, Shageily 
Mat. Med. v. 1. poe " (Hyofeyamus peruvianus ; Ger. e 
57+ Barswoxors; Renealm. Spec. 38. t. 37. Berga ae 
ceolate-ovate, feffile, decurrent. ies 
acute. 
Leaves erate, clafping the ftem, and decurrent, one or 
two feet long, flaccid, acute, entire ; various in breadth. 
Stem round, branched, deal bearing abundance of long: 
tubular, rofe-coloured flowe With us this plant is chiefly 
cultivated in the en nenieyen for private ufe,. ferving to 
fumigate the hot-houfes, and drive away infects, in which it 
is all-powerful. Revenue laws forbid the railing of To- 
bacco for fale in England. For its more important qualities, 
ae ufes, as well as its commercial hiftory, fee To 
.N. P ibaa Shrubby Tobacco. Linn. Sp. Pl. 258.. 
Regn. B —Leaves lanceolate, tapering at the bafe, 
clafping the roe Segments of the corolla aeute. Stem 
fhrubby.—This is faid to be a native of China. It has 
been — 2 the Englifh lager for more than a: 
century. ve feen it inthe open air, in a garden near 
Naples, with 2 a vi three or four inches in diameter, forming: 
afmall tree. Its woody: perennial habit, and narrow eaves, 
which taper down into a fort of foorflalk, that clalps the 
branch at its bafe, are the chief marks of diftin@ion between 
this and the former, ae which its fowers very nearly agree.. 
We think Mill. Ic. t. 185. f. 1, may ahaa this on 
3- N. undulata. apie Holl ia Tobac Ait. mn. 33 
ee Prods ve I. 4 n Ma ine t. 10. Sims 
The eae at ras Jackfon are 
wny, vifcid ana 
ole fheriy: ne {maller than in the 
— se i ribbed and fur 
. plumbaginifelia. TLesiver Jewel Tobac Vi- 
mee i Hort. ee . te Io—-Radical leaves oe con- 
tratted the b ; ftem -leaves lanceolate, pa ed the 
ftem ; all u fica Corolla. falver eae e.—The 
native country of this {peciesis unknown ae —- cul- 
tivated in fome Italian gardens, and we obt vied flowering 
pcicae in May 1804, from the ftove of the late lady 
Amelia Hume. ‘Fhe fm.is-much branched from the very 
bottom. Leaves broader than in the laft, with which fpe- 
cies the Sowers. moft agree in colour, fize, and da 
; ut. 
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