"Nicotiana" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... In Australia generally, a true Tobacco, Nicotiana suaveolens, Lehm., N.O. Solanaceae; readily eaten as a forage plant by stock. In Queensland, the name is also applied to Pituri (q.v.). In Tasmania, the name is given to Cassinia billardieri, De C., N.O. Compositae. Various American tobaccos are also naturalised, ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... and alcohol are the only two drugs, we are much acquainted with, which intoxicate; and by this circumstance are easily distinguished from the secernentia and sorbentia. Camphor, and cicuta, and nicotiana, are thought to induce a kind of intoxication; and there are many other drugs of this class, whose effects are less known, or their doses not ascertained; as atropa belladonna, hyocyamus, stramonium, prunus laurocerasus, menispermum, cynoglossum, some ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... Chrysanthemum, annual. Cosmos, smaller kinds. Euphorbia marginata. Four o'clock (up to 30 in.) Hop, Japanese. (to 30 in.) Kochia, or summer cypress Marigold, tall kinds. Nasturtium, tall, if allowed to spread on the ground. Nicotiana (up to 30 in.). oenothera, tall kinds. Salvia coccinea (splendens grandiflora), about 2 ft. Zinnia, tall ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey |
