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winch are either Fabulous, Doubtful, or at kail Super- 
stitious. 
In the Second Bo^k he takes notice that the true 
Rubarb is not a Dock, but the Root of a Plant with a 
Tent apt t alow Flower,* and that the Rhaharbarum of AU 
pinus, which in our Gardens is called Rubarb, is the 
true Rupontick, which ought to be ufed in the Shops in- 
ftead of the Root of a Centaurium Majus, which is fre- 
quently fold for it. Concerning the Been album (0 ru- 
lr*m y he enumerates the many Controverfies among 
Authors, both Ancient and Modern, and the Root of 
what Plant each would have it to be ; and concludes, 
that if the Tapavcr Spume um is not the Been album, and 
the Limonium the Been rubrum, which by reafos of the 
imperfeft Defcriptions of the Arabians , he dares not 
aver, yet may they not improperly be ufed as their 
Snccedaneams. Contra-yerva is the Root of a Pomife- 
rout Herb as are China and SarfapariUa of Bacciferous : 
Jalapium, Mecheacanna and Turpethum are the Roots of 
divers Species of Convolvuli : Opium he proves to be 
the Concret Spontaneous Juice of a Poppy. He excel- 
lently proves the Amomum verum to be a fort of Car- 
damomum, as is alfo the Malegneta, or Gr ana Paradift : 
Unto which Tribe alfo belongs the Curcuma, Coflus r 
Gdlanga, 'Zedoaria, Zerumbeth, and Zinziber. Nardu^ 
Indica he makes the Root of a Cyperus. 
Among Trees and Shrubs he demonftrates Terra JZ- 
ponica not to be an Earth, but the condenfed Juice of 
the Fruit of the Faufel; Balfamum e Toly the Refine of an 
American Pine. Cocculus Indus , and tfux Vomica, we, the 
one of a Bacciferous, and the other of a Pomiferous Afa- 
fostida : Benzoin, Cambogium 9 Catanna, and Tacamabaca f 
&c. by what Trees they are produced. The Cortex 
Winteranus he proves not to be the CaneUa Alba which 
is fold for it in the Shops, but the Bark of another Tree 
with an Umbilicatecf Fruit growing in Magellan. Manna 
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