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feafon in wax ; but alfo for the care you have taken 
in raifing one of the firft tea-plants that has been 
produced from feed in this kingdom; efpecklly as it 
came to me in fuch a Situation, that it could fcarcely 
be expected to vegetate. 
You have further (hewed your (kill in raifing many 
of the ftarry anifeed trees from Weft Florida after 
they had been confined in a box under the fhip’s 
decks for near four months, a voyage near as long 
as from St. Helena, or even the Cape of Good 
Hope. 
I fhall now proceed to give you a hifiory of this 
curious tree, both as a native of Japan, China, and 
other parts of the Ead, as well as both the Floridas 
in North America. 
We meet with an account of the Eaftern one, to- 
gether with a figure of it, taken from Clufius, in 
Parkinfon’s Theatre of Plants,/*. 1569. where he 
obferves, that lome branches of it, with the hufks and 
feeds only, without leaves or blofioms, were brought 
into England by Sir Thomas Cavendifh, in queen 
Elizabeth’s time, from the Philippine Iflands, where 
he met with it in his voyage round the world. Thefe 
branches were given to Mr. Morgan, the queen’s 
apothecary, and to Mr. James Garrat, of whom Clu- 
fius received them. 
Monfieur Geoffroy, in his Materia Medica, trans- 
lated in 1736 by Dr. G. Douglafs, p. 322. calls it 
Anijurn Sinenje, Semen Badian , & Fruftus Stellatus , 
and fays, it is highly efieemedin China, and all over 
the Ead. That it is ufed to cure any bad fade in the 
mouth, as a prefervative againft the effefts of bad 
air, and alfo for the done and gravel. The Indians 
likewife 
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