ORIGIN AND HISTORY. pu 
Montigny. Dr. Sicard says that upon its appearance in 
Europe, the sorgho was supposed by various persons to 
be the millet of Caffraria, Pain des Anges, Sorghum 
saccharatum of Wil, Holcus docna of Forsk, Holews sac- 
charatus of Linneeus, Andropogon saccharatus of Kunth ; 
and somewhat later Mr. Leonard Wray gave to it the 
name of Imphee. 
THE ATTEMPT OF PIETRO ARDUINO. 
Frequent reference is made in all the French works 
which I have translated, to the attempt made in 1786 by 
the Signor Pietro Arduino to introduce the Lolcus sac- 
charatus from Kaffirland into Italy; and to his pub- 
lished accounts of his experiments in sugar mak- 
ing. Tis son collected these fragments of writing, 
added to them his own reminiscences of his father’s 
experiments, and issued them in aseparate volume, 
in 1808; but at the present day it is almost a matter of - 
impossibility to procure a copy of the work, it having 
passed out of print. Nothing is known, however, it 
seems to me, to distinctly show that the plants on which 
Dr. Arduino’s experiments were undertaken were the 
same as the sorgho introduced from China; for he speaks 
of the seeds being of a clear light brown color, while the 
seeds of our Chinese variety are of a very deep purple, 
almost black. His description, nevertheless, exactly cor- 
responds with the appearance of the seeds of Mr. Wray’s 
imphee; and hence we are led to believe that it was in 
reality the African, and not the Chinese sugar cane which 
was cultivated by him at Florence. Whether it was be- 
