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CHAPTER VI. 



MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. 



Under this head we must place a few articles which are of 

 great importance, but they cannot be arranged under any 

 of the previous chapters. They are usually described under 

 the name of groceries ; but as this term is so indefinite, we 

 prefer the above title for the group now under consideration. 

 The first we shall describe is 



Tea. — This well-known vegetable product consists of the 

 dried leaves of two or three species of T/iea, as T. Bohea 

 (Plate I. fig. 1), T. viridis, and T. Assamica (?). (Nat. Ord. 

 Ternstromiacea.) 



It was long supposed that green tea was the produce of 

 Thea viridis, and black tea of T. Bohea. Mr. Eobert Portune 

 however ascertained that both kinds were usually made from 



