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NICOTIANA RUSTICA.
YELLOW-FLOWERED TOBACCO. COMMON GREEN TOBACCO.
Pentandria Monogyniay Linn. Solaneae, Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calix urceolate, 5-cleft. Corolla funnel-form, border plaited, 5-cleft. Stamina in*
dined. Capsule 2 to 4-valved, 2-celled.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Leaves petiolate, ovate, quite entire. Flowers obtuse. Willd,
SYNONYMS.
H yoscyamus niger, Matth. Valqr. v. 2. 412.
H. luteus, Germ. em. 356.
A h a r d y plant. Root annual. Stem from three to four feet high, with
panicled branches, roundish, yellow-green, invested with a soft semi-
viscous pubescence, particularly above; the hairs of the pubescence
capitated by secreting glands. Leaves from three to six inches long,
broad-ovate, somewhat cordate; upper ones lanceolate-ovate—all
entire, but undulate and irregular on the margin, pubescent, of a
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