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lower fide of the piftil, and one on the upper. Thefc are, 

 each of them, crowned with two oval ftigmata, at firft green, 

 but after, crimfon. The fruit is formed in a capfula, confift- 

 ing of two conical, hollow leaves, which, when clofed, feems 

 to compofe a fmall conical pod, pointed at the top. The 

 fruit, or feed, is oblong, and is not 4b large as the head of 

 the fmalleft pin, yet it is very prolific, and produces thefe 

 feeds in fuch quantity as to yield a very abundant crop in 

 the quantity of meal, 



Whether this grain was ever known to the Greeks and 

 Romans, is what we are no where told. Indeed, the vari- 

 ous grains made ufe of in antiquity, are fo lamely and 

 poorly defcribed, that, unlefs it is a few of the molt com- 

 mon, we cannot even guefs at the reft. Pliny mentions 

 feveral of them, but takes no notice of any of their quali- 

 ties, but medicinal ones ; fome he fpecifies as growing in 

 Gaul, others in the Campania of Rome, but takes no 

 notice of thofe of Ethiopia or Egypt. Among thefe there 

 is one which he calls Tiphe, but fays not whence it came ; 

 the name would induce us to believe that this was TeiF, 

 but we can only venture this as a conjecture not fupport- 

 ed. But it is very improbable, connected as Egypt and 

 Ethiopia were from the firft ages, both by trade and reli- 

 gion, that a grain of fuch confequence to one nation fhould 

 be utterly unknown to the other. It is not produced in 

 the low or hot country, the Kolla, that is, in the borders of 

 it; for no grain can grow, as I have already faid, in the 

 Kolla or Mazaga itfelf ; but in place of Teff, in thefe bor- 

 ders, there grows a black grain called Tocuflb. The flalk 

 of this is fcarce a foot long ; it has four divifions where the 

 grain is produced, and fecms to be a fpecies of the meiem 



mfalib, 



