In reference to the nomenclature of the tobacco plant, like that of most things handed down to posterity, it admits of many versions. As we have previously observed in America, it was termed among the natives, _petun_ and _yoli_, besides other barbarous names, probably each appellation peculiar to a different tribe. On the appearance of the plant in England, it received the name it is still recognized by, namely, Tobacco. This word, by some writers, is supposed to have had its derivation from _Tobago_ in the West Indies, while others assert it is derived from _Tobaco_, a different place altogether; which latter, from its closer approximation to the word _tobacco_, we cannot but imagine correct. In botany it is more particularly known under the scientific appellation of _Herba Nicotiana_, so named on its introduction into France, in compliment to her ambassador, _Jean Nicot of Nismes_, from whom it was received. It was also well known under the imposing titles of _Herba Reginae Catharinae Medicae_, and _Herba Reginae_: the first given in honor of the queen, and the latter of a grand prior of the house of Lorraine, both of whom were the first receivers of the plant, and fostered it on account of the many virtues it was supposed to be possessed of in pharmacy. In different countries its names were various. In Italy at that time it was called _St. Crucis_, taken from _St. Croix_, an apostolic legate who brought it into the country, somewhere in the middle of the 16th century. The Dutch call it TABOC, or _Taboco_, indifferently. Some of the German writers describe it under the name of the _Holy_ or the _Indian Healing Herb--Heilig wundkraut_, or _Indianisch wundkraut_. In most other countries _Tobac_ or _Tabac_ prevails. Notwithstanding the extreme popularity that attended the introduction of the plant generally throughout Europe, there were not wanting those sovereigns who testified an antipathy at first to the tobacco plant, little short of that, for which king James was afterwards remarkable--of whom we shall have occasion to speak anon. Amurath the Fourth forbade its introduction in any form whatever within his dominions under very severe penalties. The Czar of Muscovy and the king of Persia issued edicts of a similar nature, while Pope Urban the Eighth made a bull to excommunicate all those who took tobacco into churches. ON SNUFF AND THE ORIGIN OF THE LUNDY FOOT. Jove once resolv'd, the females to degrade, To propagate their sex without their aid; His brain conceiv'd, and soon the pangs and throes He felt nor car'd the unnatural birth disclose: At last when tried no remedy could do, The god took _snuff_ and out the goddess flew. JOE MILLER. Snuff was manufactured and consumed in great quantities in France, long previous to its adoption in England. For the account of its being introduced to Great Britain we are indebted to the once celebrated[4] Charles Lillie.