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Plant, for in the very next Line he tells us it is Arhor p'iegrandis, 
a Tree of an extraordinary Size, and compares it to the Tdia^ or 
Lime Tree. 
Dr. Salmon agrees with Vale in calling the Coffee Plant a Tree 5 
but inflead of the pr^egrandis of that Author, he fays it is but a 
very little Tree. 
Sin Thomas Pope Blount ^ in his Natural Hiffory, i«S'5>3, ^^hes 
Notice ( from Vu Four I fuppofe) of the Refemblance of it to the 
Cherry Tree, except that it is fcarce fo big. 
Dr. Pechejy in his Compleat Herbal, 1(^9^, calls it a little Tree 3 
but rather than to fay he copy’d Dr. Salmon, I flull fuppofe he 
tranllated the Arhufculum of Mr. Ray. 
Pomet, after finding Fault with Blegny, tho’ without naming 
him, tells us, {Hijloire des Drogues, that for his Part, he 
rather inclines to J. Bauhinus's Opinion, that it is like the Spindle 
Tree. Fdow can this Author have ever read y. B. and not fee 
that he copies Alpinus ? 
Herman acquaints us, in his Pofthumous Treatife of the Ma- 
teria Medica^ publifli’d 1710, that the Coffee Trees grow ii\ Ara- 
bia Felix, and that they are as big as Lime Trees. As this Book 
was handed about in Manufcript long before it was printed, it 
was from thence, perhaps, that Dale got this Comparifon. 
The two Lemerys ftick by J. B. and only refer to hi m fo r a 
farther Account of this Plant. 
It is hard to tell upon what Langius founded the Refemblance, 
when, in his Materia Medica, 1704, he compared the Coffee 
Plant to the Filix-, or how, after fuch a Comparifon, he fliould 
ftill call it a Tree. 
Tournefort has no where mention’d this Plant, but in a Pofl- 
humous Treatife of the Materia MedUa-, and even there he has 
only copy’d Du Four. 
Chomel, in his Plantes XJfueUes ^ ijii, and Andry, in his Ali- 
mens du Car erne, 1713, call it fimply a Tree which grows in.<^r^“ 
lia Felix. 
Valentini, in the Fatin Edition of his Materia Medica, publifh’d 
in 1716', tells us it is an exotick Tree as big as the Lime Tree. 
C. Commelinus is the firfl who has been at Pains to examine this 
Plant with a View to difeover the Family it belongs to 3 for nei- 
ther Morifon nor Tournefort in his Inffitutions, have fo much as 
mention’d it 3 and the Way that Mr. Ray has clafs’d it is only by 
Guefs. According to this Author, the Coflee Plant is a Species 
of Jeffamin j and Volkamerus, in the Acad. Cafar. Leopold. Ephem. 
OhJ. 168. adds, that it is of the Bacciferous Kind. 
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Meffieurs 
