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CHAPTER XII. 



MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. 



" Sooty retainer to the vine, 

 Bacchus' black servant, negro fine ; 

 Sorcerer, that mak'st us dote upon 

 Thy begrimed complexion." 



Included in this chapter will be found a collection of vege- 

 table substances either more or less connected with the arts 

 and manufactures, but not capable of being correctly ar- 

 ranged under any of the preceding chapters. Foremost in 

 the list stands that poisonous weed on which Charles Lamb 

 wrote the above lines, when striving to release himself from 

 its debasing thraldom. 



Tobacco — consists of the dried leaves of several species 

 of Nicotiana (Nat. Ord. Solanacece). 



