NICOTIA'NA CERINTHOI'DES. 
HONEYWORT-LIKE TOBACCO. 
Class. 
EENTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
solanace^e. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
New Zealand 
5 feet. 
August. 
Annual. 
in 1821. 
No. 1082. 
Seeds of the Tobacco plant were sent in the six- 
teenth century from Florida to Lisbon, whence they 
were introduced to France, by a French ambassa- 
dor named Nicot ; hence Nicotiana. The name, 
Tobacco, with some modifications, prevails in al- 
most all European countries, and is believed to 
have been borrowed from Tobago, a West Indian 
island, whence the plant is indigenous; it is, how- 
ever, asserted by Professor Rafinisque, of Phila- 
delphia, that Tobacco is the name of a pipe, in the 
Hayti language, and that from this source we re- 
ceived it. 
The greater part of the species of Nicotiana are 
natives of South America, and possess more or less 
of the narcotic qualities of that article of commerce 
which is so well known amongst us. Different 
countries adopt the cultivation of different species, 
which, in some degree, accounts for the various 
qualities known in commerce. The Americans 
cultivate the Nicotiana tabacum ; the Persians, 
Nicotiana Persica; the Syrians, Nicotiana rustica; 
and the species repanda is said to be that from 
which the finest Havannah cigars are manufac- 
