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Rauvoolfius has taken notice only of the 
Colour of the Kernels, and that he fays, 
is yellowilh. 
From Alpims we learn that the Ker- 
nels he found in Egppt, v/ere of a fweet 
Taft mixed with a little Bitternefs, but 
no Sharpnefs. Whether he was altoge- 
ther in the right in this, 1 leave to every 
Bodies Experience to refolve them. 
Clufius tells us, that thefe Seeds are of 
a dark yellow Colour, acid Tafte, and flat 
On one fide. 
J. B. That the Coverings being re- 
moved, there appears a. hard Kernel 
much of tlie ftiape of a Date Stone, 
with a hollow running through it lenth- 
vvife, of a pale afh Colour and a bitter un- 
pleafant Tafte. And that all the way 
from the Vmbilkus io the oppofite Point, 
it appears as if it were divided into two 
Grains (ab ZJmbilico ad oppojitum Jbfucro- 
nem gemin 'a ofietnat grana.) 
From the whole of whaf has been quo- 
ted from this Author, it appears plainly, 
that this Defcription was taken from a 
Fruit with only one Kernel ^ and there- 
fore its not fo eafy to guefs the meaning 
of thelaft Words of it. Confidcring the 
Place where they lie, 1 fhould be inclined 
to think they were added by his Editors, 
for they are no ways of a Piece with the 
reft ^ or if they do really belong to Bau- 
hinus's own Text, I can make no more 
of them than thiSj That when a Angle 
Kernel is viewed on that fide in which 
the Sulcus lies, it appears as if it were di- 
vided into two Grains. 
\vhatever be in that, there is nothing 
in all this Defcription that contradifts 
what we have heard from Clufiusy and 
therefore I cannot imagine the reafon 
why J. B. ftiould add, thattho’ the out- 
ward appearance of his Fruit anfwer’d in 
every thing to the Figure given us by 
Clufius^ yet there were other things in 
which they did not agree i and therefore 
he durft not venture to fay that his was 
the fame with that from whence Clufius’s 
Figures were taken. It may be his Scru- 
ple was grounded upon this, that Clufius's 
Berries were double, and his own Angle. 
By Oleariusy the Colour of the Coffee 
Kefnels is compared to that of common 
Wheat, and the Tafte to that of Turkey 
Wheat. 
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We have heard already, that accorc^’ 
ing Veflingius^ the Tafte of them is very 
fen Ably bitter. 
Tarkinfon informs us, that on each Ada 
of the Husk of the Coffee Fruit, lietha 
ffuall long white Kernel, flat on that fide 
they join together, of an acid Tafte and 
fomewhat bitter with all, 
Banefius diftinguilhes the Coffee Ker^' 
nelsinto two Sorts, with refpeft to theic 
Colour *, the one he fays is whitifh, the 
other of a darkilh Citron Colour, tend- 
ing towards a Green •, and thefe laft are 
to be preferred to the other. All this 
is true enough in faft, but it feems 
to be owing to our Authors not ha- 
ving underftood Avicenna^ that ever he 
was fo lucky as to obferve it. Avlcemi.t 
has told us the fame thing of a Root 
which he calls Bunchum *, and Rauwolfius, 
Banefius^ and others, being deceived by 
the Amilitude both of the Karnes and Vir- 
tues, have taken this for the Buna ox: Cof- 
fee Fruit, but Salmafius and F'elfchlus have 
abundantly proved they were in the 
wrong. 
The curious Enquiries that the learn- 
ed Dr. Grew has. made concerning Seeds,' 
as well as all the other, parts of Plants, 
have furnifhed him w'ith fome very un- 
common Obfervations concerning the Cof- 
fee Fruit in particular, befides what he 
has faid about other Seeds which .wjll 
equally agree to it. Thefe laft I leave to be 
confulted in his excellent Anatomy of 
Plants, the others muft not be omitted here. 
Having deferibed the Coverings that be- 
long to Seeds which he proves In the far 
greateft part of them to be three in Num- 
ber, he oblerves that in many, there is a 
Fitellum or Body analogous thereunto, 
which is neither [part of the true Seed 
nor part of the Covers, but diftinft from 
them both. This, he tells us, makes 
fometimes the principal part of the Fruit, 
being much bigger than the true Seed 
its felf:^ and in enumerating the different 
Figures, Difpofitions and other Proper- 
ties of thefe Vitella^ amongft the reft he 
obferves, that in the Goofe-grafs or Cli- 
ver it is of a horny Subftance, but flia- 
ped fomewhat like a Bonnet with the 
Rims tucked in-, and fo in the Coffee 
Berry, but rowled or folded up into a 
kind of oval Figure, with a Notch or Rl- 
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