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a very common, well-known kind. With my own hands, 

 not without fome labour and rifk, I collected fpecimens 

 from byria, from the river Jordan, from two different pla- 

 ces in Upper and Lower Kgypt, from the lakes Tzana and 

 Gooderoo in Abyffinia ; and it was with the utmoft plea- 

 fure I found they were in every particular intrinfically the 

 fame, without any variation or difference, from what this 

 plant has been defcribed by the ancients ; only I thought 

 that thofe of .Egypt, the middle of the two extremes, were 

 ftronger, fairer, and fully a foot taller than thofe in Syria 

 and Abyilinia. 



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