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Juncus. Minor barbade?i/is i &c. Pk. t. 1 97, f. 8. 



The {lender aquatic Cyperus. 



CYPERUS 



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prejjis conglobath & radialis 



is Longus odoratus, &c, Slo. Cat. 35, & H. t. 75 



The fcented Cyperus with clammy Leaves. 



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laft fort grows generally 



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lands and fwamps of y t 

 the fea j it has a ftrong, but agrceab 



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clammy while young, and nfes commonly to the height of two feet, or better 

 pretty frequent to the eaft of King/ion. 



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Of fuch as have three Filaments, and two Stiles in every Flower. 



BoBARTIA 



t . Spicis capitalist 



involucre* majori foliofo t cells. 



An, Bobartia, &c. L. flo. Zey, & Sp. PI. 



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The large-headed Graft. 



This grafiy plant grows very rank in and about the Gully, that runs to the eaft of 

 Kingjlon, and is eafily diftinguimed by its large foliated heads. 



SACCHARUM 1. Geniculatum & fucculentum, panic uld fpatiofa. 



Saccharum Floribus paniculatis. L. Sp. PI. 



Arundo Saccarifera C. B. &c. Slo. Cat. 31. & H. t. 66. 

 1 Taca-Mara Pif. Pag. 108. 





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The Sugar Cane. 



It is not probable that this plant was much known to the antients, their Sacchar, 

 Saccaron, Saccharon, and Sachar-Mambu, being more likely the produce of that larae 

 prickly reed, which itill fupplies moft of the inhabitants of the eailcrn provinces of 

 Afia, with that delicious juice which they call Mambu to this day. That plant 

 grows commonly in thofe parts of Afia that extend along the eaftern feas, and has 

 been always known to fupply the inhabitants of thofe parts with a pleafant drink, 

 which they have fometimes found intoxicating (a) -, but as few vegetable juices 

 are endowed with this quality before they are fermented, and that the other 

 productions of this plant retain no marks of a narcotic nature, we may conclude 

 that the people have been at all times ufed to ferment this juice ; but whether this 

 happened while the liquor was iiill running from the tree -, (for we have no reafon 

 to imagine it was ever had by any other means than by incifion, or tapping) or that 

 it had been laid by on purpofe, is uncertain j it is however probable both from the 

 quantity and appearance of the Sacchar (b) of the antients, that it was onlv the 

 concreted oil and effential falts of that part of the juice that continued to dribble 

 from thefe wounds, after the principal drains had been finished, which had criftalined 

 about the fear, and along the body of the reed j or the produce of fmall quantities 

 of the juice expofed to the more intenfe a&ion of the fun or fire : for the gummy 







(a) Nearchum apud Strabo, Lib, 15, 



(l>) Dufcorides, apud Mat Ca. 55. Galen : de Medicamentis fimplicibus, & Pliny, Lib. 12, Ch. t 



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