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Johannis Nicolai Fechlini Med. P. P. ferenif- 
fimiC\mhn7^Vnnc\^\sReg. Archiatri^ Theophir- 
lus Bibaculus , five de Potu Theae Dialogue. 
Francofurti; Quarto, 1684. 
THIS trad, written by the way of Dialogue, gives 
us an account that Thee, or Tfia, is a fhrub growing 
in moR. pgirtsoi ^ina znd Japan ; it ariies generally to 
the height and bignefs of our Garden Role and Cur- 
rant Trees i the Roots are fibrous, and fpread into 
many little filaments, near the furface of the Earth 1 
the flowers are like thofe oi K^faSylveJiris s the Seeds 
round, and black 5 which being low'd come to perfection 
indiree years time, and then yield an yearly crop ,* but 
thefe are palfed by, as not much material ; the great 
and only Vertue of this plant being fuppofed to confiit 
cheifly in the Leavesiof which there are fiveforts,both as 
tobignefs, and Valuer fox the largeft at bottom are 
fold for about penny halfe penny the poundsthe Imalleft: 
at the top for f o, iometimes lyp Crowns, 
As to their figure, they are thin, narrow, fharp point-j 
ed, and indented on each fide, which fome have com- 
pared to the Confolida^ the Beilis s Others to the PaUurus^, 
and fome again to the Myrttis Br abantica^ or Chameeleag» 
nus Dd(^oniei J Bnt our Author not liking the comparK 
fons, nor much Jollicitous about them, comes prefently 
to the Vertue oiThee, and endeavours tofliew howfar 
it agrees with fome plants of onr own growth, as to ths 
efFeds it produceth. 
Thee then is hot and dry '5 of a bitter adftringent . 
F Qnalityi 
