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1057 
NICOTIANA multivalvis. 
White Columbia Tobacco. 
‘ 
yp 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Souanex. aut 
NICOTIANA. Supra, vol. 10. fol. 833. 
N, multivalvis ; herbacea viscido-pilosa, foliis lanceolatis inferioribus petio- 
atis, floribus axillaribus solitariis, calyce multipartito, capsula multilocu- 
Jari, ‘corolle laciniis obtusis alte venoiis. 
‘Caulis erectus, ramosus, crassus, carnosus, undique, ut et omnes alia 
partes, glutinosa, pilosa, teterrimée hircum olens. Folia ‘carnosa, plana, 
ovato-lanceolata, glutinosa, supertora subsessilia, inferiora longe petiolata. 
alyx inflatus, costatus, glandulosus, submembranaceus, multifidus, secundiim 
gradum capsule evolutionis. ‘Corolla magna, alba, sepé livore tincta, infun- 
dibularis basi ventricosa, calyce multoties longior, limbo plano, sepiis 6-fido, 
acnrs oblongis, obtusis, venis alte impressis. Stamina numero laciniarum 
Corolle equalia. Ovarium, (et capsula) maximum, multiloculare, difforme, 
ocults normalibus sepiits in centro, superfluis circacircum iordinatim con- 
Jestis et conferruminatis, placentis semper axin spectantibus. Stylus crassus, 
nigidus. Stioma capitatum. : 
We have no doubt that this plant, Nicotiana nana, and 
- quadrivalvis, have all been confounded under the idea of 
one species by N. American Botanists. They are all cul- 
uvated by various tribes of Indians for their tobacco, for 
Which purpose the calyx, which is intolerably foetid, is 
Selected in preference, the corolla being rejected. The 
Species now distinguished is that which is cultivated by 
the nations who inhabit the banks of the Columbia, and is 
the only sort that was met with by Mr. Douglas, by whom 
Seeds of this were sent to the Horticultural Society in 1826. 
The resemblance that N. multivalvis bears to NV. quadri- 
valvis is too obvious to escape observation ; in a dried state, 
indeed, they are scarcely distinguishable without a very 
careful examination; and yet the differences that exist 
