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out of Italy, where there is found store there- 

 of, as M athiolus testifieth : I have," says he, 

 " a small tree in my garden : there is likewise 

 a tree thereof in the garden vnder London- 

 wall, sometime belonging to M. Gray, an 

 apothecary of London; and another great 

 tree in the garden neere Colman streete, 

 being the garden of the queen's apothecary, 

 called Mr. Hugh Morgan, a curious coseruer 

 of rare simples. The lote-tree doth also grow 

 in Affricke, but it some what differeth from 

 the Italian lote in fruit." Gerard adds, that 

 the fruit ripens in September: the berries, he 

 says, are round, and hang on stalks like cher- 

 ries, and not like the African lotus. " They 

 are," says he* " of a yellowish white colour 

 at the first, and afterwards red, but when they 

 be ripe they be somewhat blacke." 



The lotus-flower, that is now become so 

 fashionable in ornamenting furniture, from 

 the circumstance of it's having been selected 

 as the decoration of the superb Chinese chan- 

 deliers made for his Majesty's Pavilion at 

 Brighton, is not the blossom of the lotus T 

 tree, but of the Nymphtea Nelumbo, or Chi- 

 nese water-lotus. This water-lily is called 

 Nymphcza, from it's growing in the water, 

 which the poets feign to be the residence 

 of the Nymphs. In China, where it was 



