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Palmatum and Compadlum (landing fo near toge- 

 ther, four or five years ago, that the feeds favcd 

 from them produced only mule plants, the roots of 

 which, he believes, will prove as good and effi* 

 cacious as thofe of the bed original plants. They 

 are now growing in his garden within a mile of 

 Norwich. 



The following is his account of the ^fcovery and 

 ^ntrodu6lion of the different forts into medicine; 

 which I flatter myfelf may not be unacceptable: 

 ' The Rhapontic was the rba or rbeum of Diofco- 



* rides, and all the ancient Greeks and Romans. 



* The Turkey and India kinds were utterly un- 

 ' known to them. The Rhapontic was long fup- 



* pofed to be the true Rhubarb, till the difcovery of 



* the Undulatum about eighty years fincci which 

 ' was looked upon to be the true ofHcinal Rhubarb 

 ' for half the prefent century. It was then dif- 

 ' carded for two competitors, the Palmatum and 

 « the Comfa5fum^ to both of which the preference 



* has been given by different perfons, Linnaeus 



* alTerts the Palmatum to be the true Turkey Rhq-* 



* barbj Mr. }A\\\tx the Compadlum.* 



I have iiow about twenty plants of the Rheun^ 

 Palmatum of one year's growth only. They wer^ 

 raifcd in a box of good mould, fct upon one of the 



borders 



