. 
any Sots Steed, or other Variegations ; and ais 
the Petals naturally {pread out in a bold ERY eee 
July. in the general Afpeét or Manner of Growth, un- 
——— lefs in that it is larger. 
4 
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Pl. 43. 
Fig. 2. 
ceolatis : 
What he exprefles by J/anceolate, is a Leaf 
The Root. is compofed of many long and thick 
Fibres. | : 
The Stalk is two Foot high, round; flender, 
but firm; jointed, and of a pale green. 
The Leaves are placed in Pairs, and are narrow, 
and fharp-pointed. 
The Flower is very large, and full of Petals ; 
they are broad and deeply jagged at the Edge. 
The Colour is a deep and fine.Crimfon, without 
3 GREAT. 
This isa tall dail not inelepant Plant; familiarly 
enough known now of foie Yeats, but ‘not un- 
worthy a Place in my. Garden amin the taller 
Growths. | | BS) 
It was altogether alae to the Antients, for 
we have received it from America, nor is it Native 
of any other Part of the World: 
is therefore. to expert no ‘antient’ Greek or Latin 
Name for it. | 
From Nicor, who firft brought it into Exrope | 
in 1559, the Plant obtained the Name WNico- | 
tiana: this has been the moft received but not the 
only one in Ufe: fome have taken the Bra- 
flian Term Petum, others have made Latiz of 
the Word Tobacco, by which we ufually eall it in 
vianus. 
C. BauHINE, and the other Writers of his 
_ Time, have called this Species Nicotiana latifolia, 
broad-leaved Tobacco; but that is an ill-chofen 
Term, for thete are fome’ other Species: whofe 
Leaves aré pi ‘oportionably broader. | 
- Linnaus retains the Name Nicotiana; and 
adds, as the Diftinétion of the Species, foliis lan- 
Tobacco with lanceolate Leaves. 
broadeft in the Middle, and fmall to oe Point ; 
and this perfectly characterifes the Plant; for no 
other known Species has them of that Form. It 
is entirely diftin& from the Henbane, - and all 
other Genera; and is the Kind of Nicotiana, of 
whofe Leaves there is that vaft Confumption for 
the Articles of fs obacco and Snuff. 
The Root is compofed of numerous’ thick 
white Fibres, conneéted to a‘fmall Head. 
The Stalk is two Yards hieh, round, firm, ‘of a 
pale green tinged with a reddifh brown, and to- 
ward the Top branched ; hairy, and ie of « a 
fpungy Pith. | 
The Leaves are large, ‘and of a Tight’ gteen 5 
they have no Footftalks; but adhering” to the 
Stem by a broad” Bafe; they aré thence dilated 
each Way to the Middle, “and “from chat Part 
again grow fmaller to the Point. 
lanceolatéd Form. | 
The Colour is iste in thie Seni — and 
the Reader 
Englifb and fome affedting more Correétnefs | Fe! fhaped. 
than they had Application to poffefs, refered it to | Mouth broad and fpteading, 
the Henbane Kind, and called it Hyofcianus Peru. | mgs and Foldiags into five Parts. 
| are placed five Filaments, with, oblong But- 
This is the. 
pleafing Manner. 
- The Beauty of this Kind is Doublenefs, but 
it will forhetimes rife fingle ; and is then far from 
8 defpicable: ‘Flower. 
This is one of the firft and eafielt Changes 
from the common Clove Julyflower ; and its Seeds. 
are a very proper Kind for raifing more Varieties. 
The Manner, we have obferved already, will be 
given in a fucceeding Number. 
TOBACCO, 
: | they are hairy,-as the Stalk. The Ribs ate largé, 
their Tafte is very agtid, ane ‘they tinge the Spittle 
yellow. 
Ties Tlowreed fiendisin ereat Numbers on ‘the 
Tops of all the Benches and they are large, 
and of a delicate though not ftrong Red. | 
The Seed-veffel is large, and of an oval Form, 
_and contains numerous Kidney-fhaped Seeds. 
Each Flower has its Cup, which is of an oval 
Fi igure, fhort, of one Piece, divided into five 
‘flight Segments at the Verge; and this, as well 
as ' the Lewes and Stalk, are clammy to the 
Fouch. 
The Flower is formed of a thle Petal, and is 
The Tube is very long, and the 
divided by Indent- 
Within this 
tons, and :a fingle long flender Style wlth its 
Heado . | 
The five Fi Narhvaes refer the Plant to the fifth 
Clafs of the Linn aan Syftem, the Pestandria ; 
and thé fingle Style to the firft SeStion under hae 
Headj the Monogynia,. 9 > 
2 -Caltiee of this Toracco. a 
It isi an asda Native of the wariner Parts of - 
America, but living very well in the more Nor- 
thern: hiatitudes 3, and with due Cafe, and with a 
very little Trouble, may be raifed to the greatéft Per- 
fectidti in-our. Gardens. It would'not be diffieule 
to cultivate it in Fields ing preg if the Laws gave ; 
Pérromfieds bas. yllcow . iB You I 
The Plarit pee a deep rich Soil, and with us 
will fucceed beft in a theltered Sittiation. 
‘ The Steds niuft be fown at the latter End bf Fe. 
| Hrs oh a commit Hot-Bed, and the Plant muft 
be teeated with the fame Management as the other 
| tender Annuals : when it has ar removed about 
twice: “and is Hardened to the Air, it mutt be 
ptantéd 3 in ‘fich Garden Mould, well dug, and be 
allowed full Sdope of Room, The Plants thould 
fad Foor Foot aftinder, and the Earth be hoed 
once in a Fortnight between them : they will thus 
growin as much Vigour as in America, and pros 
duce insutherable Flowers. 
The 
