Nicotiana major Latifolia, Tobacco, a Branch of it, the Leaves and Stem as it grows. Don. A. Atkinson. From the West-Indies it was propagated to the East-Indies, and in all Places hath very much betwitched the Inhabitants from the more polite Europeans to the barbarous Hottentots (o)(o) Id. Nat. Hist. of Jamaica. p. 146.. It was brought into England by Sir Francis Drake, An. 1586. the Portuguese call it Herba Santa, because it is a Counter-Poison. The Seed of Tobacco, bright brown, and extreamly small; it is mixed with five Times as much Ashes when it is sown. Here are also Samples both of the Hyoscyamus Peruanus, and of the English Tobacco. Yorkshire Hemlock, eleven Foot high, though heedlesly cut down at a Distance from the Root. Also Mallows full three Inches broad from the same Place. Don. D. Tho. Rayner de Brotherton.