Nicotiana rwtica. 93 



Tobaco, a province of Yucatan, which has given the common name. 

 They were distributed from this source, throughout Europe, and 

 hence the iotroduction of Tobacco as an article of luxury. The 

 present species furnishes the common tobacco, or common-green to- 

 bacco, and the seeds of it are supposed to have been received in 

 Europefrom America, about the same time that those of N.tabacum 

 or Virginia tobacco, were sent. America has been referred to as the 

 native country of the tobacco, by most writers; but Savary declares, 

 that the Persians received it from Egypt four hundred years ago, 

 and have during all this time cultivated it. Whatever be the truth 

 of this obscure question, there can be no doubt that the present spe- 

 cies, as well as the N. tabacum, has long been naturalized in this 

 country ; and hence it becomes proper to figure it in a Flora of 

 North America. 



Fig. i. A specimen in flower of N. rustica. 



2. A flower, separated. 



3. A stamen. 



4. Calix, germ, and pistil. 



(All the size of nature.) 

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