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conquer d the or or Paes ae re Piff oe was a Plyfic clan, and } 
Marcgrave an Induftrious Scholar, going out of Holland thither, were 
“very curious, and took great care to obferve' what they thought worth 
Notice, and bad Maregrave liv'd to have _publifh'd bis own Obferva- 
tions, that Work would have been much more confi iderable s but his Pa- 
pers falling into'the Hails, fof? of John de: Lact, who, ahah a Learned 
Man, yet was ignorant of Natural’ Hiftory ; arid then op Pifo, who, thi 
he was a Practical Phyfician, ‘yet had no great Knowlege of Natural 
things ; are not. fo much to be depended on’ as ont could wifh : The Figures 
and Defcriptions are: tranfpos’ d, as I have found by examination, and the 
firft Edition’ 1s preferable to the Second, wherein Pifo hath taken to much 
Liberty of af HOR the Vertues ‘of European Flerbs: to thofe of the fame 
Tribé\in Brafile. © ’Tis very evident the Vertues of all Plarits ts of the fame 
Tribe,‘are not always found to covre[pond 3 ‘we need go no ‘farther’ than 
this Fit/tory, wherein the Spanifh. Patata eaten ‘conmmiinhy in’ ‘i amaica, 
i#'a true Convolvulus, the moft part of which Family purge ; the Calla. 
da, of the Root of which Bread is made, is a true Ricinus, the Tribe 
sg anit generally Speaking, vomit and purge iy b gre eat Violence, &e. 
hs may be abjebted that” tis to no iru to an) in ite Parts of the 
World: ‘to look’ after Juch Herbs, “8c. Becaufe ie neve ie them, z% ai 
fiver, “that's many of them aiid their Jeveral § Parts have been brought over, 
and are ufed-in Medicines ‘every day, and mare may, 10 the great Ad 
vantage of Phyficians and Patients, were ‘People’ ing “ifitivi gh to 
100k after them: ‘The Plantsrbomfelye ve been likewié Bought over, 
planted, and throve very well at Moyra,. int Treland; ‘by the Direétis;, 
of Sir Arthur Rawdon ; 4s alfo by the Order ‘of i) se be Reveren 
Dr. Henry” Cotnpton, Biff ‘of 1 Londoh,” ‘at ‘Fulhasi iis. 2 Chetfés 
by: Mr. Doudy 5° and Enfield db) ‘the ‘Reverend Dr. Kobtrt Uvediles 
and «in the’ Botanic Gardens” of: Amfterdam, Leyden, Leiplick, 
Upfal). ec. ‘bie ‘epecially at ‘Badminton i in Clocelter-fhite, whore 
they ave not only -ritis’d [ome few handfuls bigh, ‘but come’ to Perfection, 
flower and produce their ripe Fruits, even to’ my Admiration and that, 
by the Direétion of her Grace the Duchefs of Tee who at her 
leifure Hours, from her more ferious Affairs, has taken pleafure to come 
mand thevraifing of Plants in her Garden, where, by means of Stoves and 
Infirmartes, many of them have come to greater Pick sien than in any 
Part of Europe, 
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