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people pieferring generally to smoke and chew the imported manu- 
factured tobacco. In the year 1697, this plant was recorded as 
growing on the Island.— Hab. America. 
0 . 2 o. M". glauca, Grab. — Yellow-flowered Tobacco; grows wild 
to a tall slender shrub about eight feet high, and is very common 
about the barren hills above Jamestown, The Briars, Halftree 
Hollow, &c. C. Alt. T to 2. Bot. Mag. 2837.— Hab. Buenos 
Ayres, S. America. 
o26. N. persica, Bind! — Shiraz Tobacco ; cultivated in Planta- 
tion garden. — Hab. Persia. 
527. N. rustica, Linn. — Syrian or Latakia Tobacco ; also grown 
at 1 lantation. The cultivation of this species, with N. persica, was 
undertaken a few years ago, but the report upon some of the leaves 
sent to England, and manufactured by Mr. Benson, of Oxford Street, 
■was unfavourable. It was said to want flavour, which probably 
aiose from having been grown in a poor soil. Higher cultivation 
might doubtless render the growing of tobacco at St. Helena a 
profitable undertaking, inasmuch as the plants thrive well there, and 
one species grows quite wild. — Hab. Syria, &c. 
Physalis, Linn. 
5.28. P. peruviana, Linn. ; P. edulis , Sims. — Bilberry, or Cape 
Gooseberry ; one of the most abundant weeds of the high land. 
Alt. 2 to 4. Wild and very common ; whole fields of it exist in 
some places. Pheasants and poultry feed upon the fruit, which is 
also gathered in large quantities, and taken to the market for sale. 
It makes excellent jam and jelly. Bot. Mag. 1068.— Hab. America. 
529. P. flexuosa, Linn. — Small red-berried Bilberry; grows 
wild and is common about the roads and hill sides in Jamestown, 
Bupert’s Valley, &c. C. Alt. -4.— Hab. E. Indies. 
Petunia, Juss. 
530. P. sp. ? — Numerous garden varieties of Petunia are cul- 
tivated on the Island. C. to II. L. 
Solanum, Linn. 
531. S. acanthocarpum, Hort. — A very prickly species of 
Brinjal; introduced in 1870. 
