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Couriosrty and intereft would mutually induce the Euro- 
peans to make the moft diligent enquiries in order to difcover 
the real Tea fhrub, or a fubftitute in fome other vegetable 
moft refembling it, Simon Paulli, a celebrated phyfician and 
at Copenhagen, was the firft who pretended to have 
difcovered the real Tea plant in Europe. By opening fome 
Tea leaves, he found them fo much like thofe of the Dutch 
myrtle’, (Flor. Su. 907.) that he obftinately maintained they 
were productions of the fame fpecies of Tea; though he was 
afterwards refuted by feveral botanifts in Europe, and by the 
fpecimens fent to him, and to Dr. Mentzel of Berlin, from the 
Eaft-Indies, by Dr. Cleyer ’. 
* Myrica Gale. Goule, Sweet Willow, or Dutch Myrtle, Hudfon’s Fl. Angl. 
p. 368. Linn. Syftem. Natur. Vol. III. p. 651.. A plant of peculiar fragrance, found 
in the North of England, Brabant, and other Northern countries. Simon de Molin- 
griis was the firft who oppofed this opinion of Simon Paulli, by fhewing the differ- 
ence betwixt this fpecies of myrtle and the oriental Tea. See alfo Wilh. Leyl. epift. 
- apud Sim. Paulli comment. &c. 
_ * Figures ‘of the fame were “publithed i in the Ada Haffnienfia, and German 
Ephemerides, Dec. 11. Ann, ty. 
Father 
