NICOTIANA. 
but differ rapier in the acutenefs of their fegments. 
The calyx alfo is 
anillaris. Poiret in Lamarck 
Did al eaves oppofite, ovate, flat, nearly feffile. 
Stalks axillary, “folitary, pita eae Corolla obtufe. 
Segments of the calyx deep, f{patulate.—Gathered by 
bap icons at Monte Video, and communicated by Thouin 
the younger Linneus. Of the lower haves we know 
meshing ; the upper are as above defcribed, rather above an 
inc h long, and near an 
ee Tobacco. 
yellowith, ftreake 2d and bordered with purple; its tube 
thrice the length of the calyx; limb obliquely twifted and 
folded in the bud, ana ete when epi with flight 
blunt fegments. Fruit unkno $ evi 
uncertainty muft attend the oe us of his plant, till the 
hole of the Seigler it is known, ave ae 
_ Commerfon a d Poiret in making it a a Wied cotian 
triftis. Dull: purple Tobacco.—Leaves iene slate, 
— "ciateing the ftem. Coroila falver-fhaped, its tube not 
twice the length of the Fede and fcarcely longer than the 
obtufe limb.—Gathered by Commerfon at Monte Video. 
The whole herb is vifcid and down tem {fomewhat 
branched, from one to two feet, or more, in ae: t. Ra- 
dical Jeaves roundifh-ovate, or obovate; thofe the ftem 
a 
— dilated and clafping the ftem at thee bafe; all 
wavy or fomewhat crifpe oa the margin. Flowers race- 
3 tube an 
ength of the ‘eal cylin- 
rather fhorter than the tube, its fegments 
obtufe, horizontal, plaited. One of the ffamens 
fhorter than the reft 
Common Green Tobacco. Linn. Sp. PI. 
259. Willd. n. 3 Ait. n. 4. yofcyamus niger 5 
lu eek Ger. em. 356. 
of the corolla bell- 
e tube. — 
feet high, leafy with panicled branche. 
to fix inches long, of a 
fays of oie Albee that “taken in fmoke, it worketh the 
— cy of drunkenneffe that the right Tubacco doth.” 
N. paniculata. Panicled Tobacco. et oe Pl. 259. 
Stockh. Tranf. for 1753. go. t. 1. n.4. Ait, 
N. minor, folio corto, tubo fori prelongo ; 
Feuill. Peruv. v. 3 0. )—Leaves ftalked, heart- 
fhaped, entire. Panicles cd benched. Taube of the corolla 
club-fhaped, five times as long as the calyx ; limb very fhort, 
{preading, with fhallow rounded lobes. —Native of Peru. 
innzus received the fe eds from Bernard d de Juffieu, and 
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dax and compound panicles, and efpecially in the Tenge ae 
eee an fhaped figure, of a corolla, though its colour 
nearly the fa Feuillée, who difcovered this plant in 
ie aie of ena, fays not a wee of its being applied to 
any particular ufe. 
Prickly Toba 
g. N. urens. y acco. Linn. Sp. Pl. 259. 
Willd. n. ' pparianned re ima, flore exalbido ; 
Plum.Cat. “a Ic. 204.t. 21 
crenate. ned a 
rec 
Tube of the corolla bell- fhapeds 3 limb revolute-—Gathered 
in South America, or the Weft Indies, by Plumier. No 
other botanit ee to have feen it. Qur only guides 
therefore are his e and fhort definition. ‘This feems to 
The aves are above a foot long, 
ge sagas ace and 
Branches of 
erie ad 2 3 their mar 
the limb sce acute. 
10. N. glutinofa. Clammy, or ae Tobacco. Linn. 
Sp. Pl. 259. Willd. n. 6. Ait. n. Andr. Repof. 
curve what ringent -oeatl ee fanaa than the 
finest eects fegments of the calyx, is charatteriftic. Its 
colours are eal eit of the firft and fecond {pecies, but 
lefs vivid. Burmann, the editor of Plumier, points out 
the affinity of this af the 1 ut they cannot be con- 
founded he ftalked /eaves agree in that lager with 
Gerarde’s Sanu fanéta dndorum, p. 357. f.2, the cut o 
which, printed hkewife in other old bose as hitherte 
been confounded wit . Tabacum, with which indeed the 
flowers accord, and not at all with the fpecies before us. 
We conceive this cut relates to fome f{pecies not hitherto 
afcertained by recent botanifts ; ; for though N. Tabacum 
varies in the length and breadth of its aves, their a 
afe, and the want of footfalks, is abundantly unlike the 
— to which we al 
; Primrofe-leaved Tobacco. Linn. Sp. 
PI. 258. ld. n. 7. foliis ovato-lanceolatis, ob- 
tufis, rugofis, calycibus brevillimis ; ill. Ic. v. 2. 124. 
t. 185. f. 2.)—Radical leaves elliptic-oblong, rugofe ; ftem- 
leaves ovate, {mall. Flowers racemofe. Tube of the haus 
club-fhaped, five times as long as ne calyx ; a 
Native of Vera Cruz, from when e Ho uftou 
feeds to Miller. is bie 
o 
ender yellowifh-green flowers, whofe corolla is not an inc 
e leaves are chiefly radical, refembling thofe of 
ie Fuad is darker. 
Tabac mum, Ger. em. 358, appears to be another 
— Tithero “soft, with a branched lea afy flew 
hi ves ovate, on foot ; oppolite ; and 
ftalked, cite. _geenifh-yllow forwers Having feen no 
fpecimen, | we leave it for future enquiry. 
N. minima of Molina, Poir. in Lam. Di&. v. 4. 481, is 
alfo pecbsbly another f{pecies unknown to us. S. 
» Nicorta eae - Gardening, contains plants of the herba- 
‘ceous annual of which the f{pecies cultivated are the 
fhrubby fabce Hs fruticofa) ; the Virginian tobacco (N. 
tabacum) ; and the — or Englifh tobacco (N. — 
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