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‘ It may be obje£led, (ays he, that this Fruit, Seed, or Berry^ 
^ grows not on Roots, but on Shrubs or Buflies •, and therefore 
^ that the Bunch of Avicenna^ which he fiys is gather’d from the 
^ Roots of Anagatlen, does not agree with our Bon. For (olving 
^ this Difficulty, we are to take notice, that the Arahick Text or 
‘ Avicenna, from which the hatin Verfion is taken, has a dou- 
‘ ble Meaning ; for there we do not read Anagatlen, but Am 
^ Garlan in two Words, and not in one, as the hatin Tranflation 
^ has it ; Now as Am in Arahick fignifies Or, therefore this 
‘ Quotation of Awicenna may be thus explicated ; Bunch is a 
^ thing brought from Jamen, fome fay from Roots, or from Garlan 5 
^ which poflibly may be the Name of fome Shrub in that Coun- 
^ try. Secondly, Am Garlan, tho’ in two Words, may all together 
^ be the Name of a Shrub, as Antonins Geggerus, in his Arahick 
^ Lexicon, will have it and then, tho’ we read that Bunch is 
‘ from the Roots of Am Gailen, we are by no means to under- 
^ ftand that the Fruit is from the Roots, but from the Shrub it- 
‘ (elf of that Name j for were it from the Roots, how could 
‘ Avicenna (ay, that when it is ripe it falls ^ falling prefuppofes a 
‘ higher Situation than the Ground, and coniequently than the 
^ Roots, which are under-ground ] It muft therefore be fup- 
* pofed to grow on Shrubs or Bullies, and accordingly we find, 
‘ that Coffee-Berries, when fully ripe and dry, will fall of them- 
* (elves. 
‘ But after all, whatever be Avicenna’s Meaning in this PalTage, 
‘ whether he (ays this Fruit is from Roots or Bufhes, he relates it 
* only as hear- (ay, and not as from his own Knowledge.’ 
The(e Arguments of Rauvoolfius and Bane jins contain the Sum 
of all that has been (aid in favour of their Opinion j and there- 
fore, fince the Truth or FaKliood of it does not depend on the 
multitude of Vouchers, it is needlels to mention any more Au- 
thors on this fide of the Queffion. 
The Arguments on the other fide will eafily evince, that the 
Authors of them underftood both the Arahick Tongue, and the 
Meaning of Avicenna better than Banefius, tho’ a Syrian by Birth. 
Of thele I fliall likewile mention two, SaJmafus and Velf chins j 
and becaufe hardly any body will be at the pains to enter into this 
Difcuffion, to whom the Latin is not perfeiflly familiar, I (liall 
give their Thoughts in their own Words. 
Salmafins.^ in his Treatile Be Homonymiis Hylis Jatrica, has a 
whole Chapter Be Buncho, and what is for our Purpofe therein is 
this. 
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