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CHAPTER VI. 



MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. 



Undee 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 terra 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 Tliea, as Bohea 

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

 Ternstrdrniace(E . ) 



It was long supposed that green tea was the produce of 

 Thea viridisy and black tea of T, Bohea, Mr. Robert Fortune 

 however ascertained that both kinds were usually made from 



