Douglas. 235 
*^ Lily: to which is added, the Botanical 
Diffedion of the Coffee-berry." Fol, 
1725. pp. 35, and 22. tab. 2. 
The roots of this beautiful ornament of 
our prefent ftoves, were fcattered from the 
wreck of a fhip on the coaft of that iilandi 
and being protected, as it has been thought, 
among the fand, by the Sea Reed, Arundo 
arenariay after the interval of fome years, 
fprung up, to the furprize of the inhabi- 
tants, and the delight of the florifts and bo- 
tanifts. This phenomenon will appear lefs 
wonderful in our days, when it is known, 
from the elegant work of Dr. Thunberg, 
that from the congeniality of climate between 
England and Japan, one-fourth part of the 
indigenous plants of that very diftant coun- 
try, appear to be aifo natives of England. 
In his Obfervations on the Coffee," 
Dr. Doug I. AS obferves, that it v/as Jfirft 
mentioned by Rauwolf in 1573, and iirfr 
fent into Europe %o Clusius. See Cluf, 
Exotic, p. 236. ^ 
Dr. Douglas, befides many papers on 
Pathological and Surgical fubjefts, written 
between the years 1707 and 1732, v/hich 
were 
