Foreign Vegetables. 
The Greeks likewife make Mention of many 
Kinds of Cinnamon differing not greatly from each 
other ; as, i . MoVuAo*, the Mofylitic Cinnamon, which 
was the beft. It was of a dark or vinous Colour 
inclining to gray, fmooth, and in (lender Sprigs or 
Branches encompaffed in many Places with Knots, 
of a fharp, biting, hot and fomewhat faline Tafte. 
2. ogEivov, the Mountain Cinnamon. 3. the 
black. 4. U7 to juppov, the yellowifh ; to which they 
add the Xylo-Cinnamomum and Pfeudo-Cinnamomum . 
Whatever Diftindlion the ancient Greeks would 
make between Cinnamon and Caftia is found to 
confift altogether in this (viz.) that Cinnamon had 
a grateful, fweet, aromatick Smell and Tafte, far 
excelling Caftia. And indeed Galen obferves, that 
the beft Caftia differed very little from the worft 
Cinnamon, and was fubftituted inftead of Cinnamon, 
but in a double Quantity. 
Now, whether the Cinnamon and Caftia of the 
Ancients were one and the fame Thing, and the 
fame with our Cinnamon, or no, is a Point of 
much Difpute among Authors. Many of them, 
among whom is Mattbiolus , fuppofe the Caftia of 
Diofcorides to be our Cinnamon, and the Cinnamon 
of the Ancients to be entirely unknown to us. 
Others, with Dodon<eus , imagine their Cinnamon to 
have been the Sprigs or younger Branches of the 
Clove-Tree. Others, again, believe that Cinnamon 
and Caftia were the fame Thing, that is, were pro- 
duced from the fame Tree * only with this Diffe- 
rence, that Caftia, as it was commonly brought to 
them, was the Bark feparated from the Wood, and 
Cinnamon the (lender Sprigs of the Tree entire : 
Which appears to me moft probable. For Diofco- 
rides affirms, that Cinnamon has fome Likenefs of 
the Caftia which is termed Mofy litis ; and Galen 
afiferts, that Cinnamon in its Nature is in fome 
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