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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
1. Broad-leaved Tobacco. 
Nicotiana latijolia. 
The root is long, thick, divided into many 
parts, and furnifhed with fibres, 
The Ilalk is round, thick, firm, ereil, divided 
into a few branches, and fix feet high. 
The leaves are very large, long, and broad : 
they have no pedicles, but furround the ftalk 
in great part at their bafc, and are of a deep 
green, and divided at the edges: they iland irre- 
gularly, and are very numerous. 
The flowers grow on flender and long foot- 
flalks at the tops of the branches and of the main- 
ftalk : they are very large, and of a beautiful 
red : they are long, tubular, and narrow at the 
bottom. 
The feed-vefTel is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous. 
It is a native of America. The European? 
became acquainted with it about two hundred 
years fince ; and from that time the demand has 
been fo great for the dryed leaves that it is one 
of the principal articles of the traffick of chat 
part of the world. 
C. Bauhine calls it Nicotiana major latifolia. 
Others, fimply, Nicotiana or Pelmn and Ta- 
bacum. 
1. Narrow-leaved Tobacco. 
Nicotiana angujlifolia. 
The root is long, thick, divided Into many 
parts, and furnifhed with numerous fibres. 
The ftalk is round, firm, ereft, and four feet 
high, very little branched, and fomewhat hairy. 
The leaves ftand alternately, and have no foot- 
ftaik, but in part cnclofc the flalk at the bafc 
they arc very long and narrow : they are undi- 
vided at the edge, and fharp pointed. 
The flowers are fmaller than thofe of the 
former, but in themfelves confiderably large : 
they are of a faint red, long, tubular, and di- 
vided at the edge. 
The feed-vefl^el is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous. 
It is a native of America, as the other, and 
flowers, with it, in June and July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Nicotiana major angujlifolia. 
3- Short leaved Tobacco. 
Nicot 'iand foi:o l^reii. 
The root is long, thick, divided into many 
parts, and furnifhed with numeroLis fibres. 
The ftalk is round, thick, hairy, and three feet 
high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly, and are broader 
and lliorter than thofe of the common kind, and 
more hairy : they do not enclofe the flalk at the 
bafe, as thofe do, but ftand on pedicles, which 
are alfo hairy. 
The flowers ftand upon long, flcndtr footftalks 
at the top of the ftalk and branches, and they are 
fmall, and of a greenifh colour, with a tinge of 
yellow. 
The feed-vefiel is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous. 
It is a native of South America, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Nicotiana minor. 
4. Dwarf Tobacco. 
Nicotiana minima. 
The root is long, flender, firnple, and fur- 
niflied but with ftw fibres. 
The leaves are numerous, oblong, broad, and 
placed on long footftalks. 
They are pointed at the end, and not at all 
ferrated at the edges, of a flcfliy fubftance, and 
of a duflcy green. 
The flowers are fmall, but of a beautiful red ; 
they ftand on flender ftiort footftalks rlfing from 
the bofoms of the leaves. 
The feed-veflel is larg*;, and the feeds arc nu- 
merous. 
It is a native of Snurli Amprira, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Nicotiana minima. 
All thefe fpecies have the fame virtues, but the 
firft kind has them in the greateft degree. 
Jt is a rough and violent emetic taken internally. 
The frefh leaves are greatly recommended 
againft pain. 
The ufe of them, dried in form of tobacco for 
fmoaking, and fnuff^ for taking up the noftrils, is 
grown univeifal. It might cither way be of great 
fervice as a medicine when required i but the fre- 
quent taking of it in wantonnefs is unhealthful. 
GENUS 11. 
THORNAPPLE. 
^ T R A M 0 N 1 V M. 
THE flower conflfts of a Angle petal, tubular, deep, and folded in five parts at the rim : the 
feed-vefl"el is of an oval figure, and contains two cells : the cup Is obioiig, tubular, bellied ; 
marked with five ribs, and divided Into five fcgments. 
LInnEus places this among his pntandria momgynia ; the threads in each flower being five, aixl the 
ftyie rifing from the rudiment of the fruit fino-le. 
He has, however, taken away the common received name Jlramonium., and calls the genus datura. 
1. Common Thornapple. 
Stramonium vidgaye. 
■ The root is long, large, divided into fevcrai 
parts, and furnifhed with many fibres. 
The ftalk is thick, firm, upright, of a pale 
green, and two foot and a half high. 
The leaves are large, broad, beautifully in- 
dented, and placed on firm footftalks : they arc 
of a lively green, fliarp-pointed, and broadeft 
toward 
