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people preferring generally to smoke and chew the imported manufactured
tohacco. In the year 1697, th is' plant- was recorded as
growing on the Island.—r-Hab. America.
625. N. glauca, Grah.—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. 0. Alt. T to 2. Bot. Hag. 2837.— Hab. Buenos
Ayres, S. America.
526. N. persica, Lindl.—Shiraz Tohacco ; cultivated in Plantation
garden.—Hab. Persia.
527. N. rustica, Linn.—Syrian or Latakia Tobacco; also grown
at Plantation. The cultivation of this species, with N. persica, was
undertaken a few years ago, typt the report upon some ot the leaves
sent to England, and manufactured by Mr. Benson, of Oxford Street,
was unfavourable. I t was said to want flavour, which probably
arose 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.—Hah. Syria, &c.
Physalis, Linn.
528. P. peruviana, L in n .; 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.
I t 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 Yalley, &c. C. Alt. "4.—Hab. E. Indies.
Petunia, Juss. .
530. P. sp. ?—Numerous garden varieties of Petunia are cultivated
on the Island. C. to H. L.
Solanum, Linn.
531. S. acanthocarpum, Hort. — A very prickly species of
Brinjal; introduced in 1870.