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T lKit which Diofcorides calls Zax.3a.p0v j Galen, Saccbar 5 Is 1 
Arc bigenes, Sal Indian 5 is the fame tiling for fubftance, 
faith Mattlnolus, with that we call Sugar ’■ faving that, 
whereas this is made of the Juyce expretfed and boil’d 5 
that of the Ancients, as is likely, was only the Tears 5 
which burfting out of the Cane, as the Gums or Milks of 
Plants are ufed to do, were thereupon harden’d into a pure 
white Sugar. That the Sugar of the Ancients was the 
hmple Concreted Juyce of a Cane, He well conjectures: 
and what is above-faid of the Mambu, may argue as much. 
But that it was the Juyce or Tears of the Sugar-Cane, he 
proves not. Nor, I think, could be, if, as is fuppofed, it 
was, like Salt, friable,and hard. And in affirming our Sugar 
to be the fame for fubftance with that of the Ancients, he 
much miftakes 5 that being the hmple Juyce of the Cane, 
this a compounded Thing, always mixed either with the 
Salt of- Lime, or of AJhes ; fometimesof Animals too. 
The COD and SEED of the true Greater CARDA- 
MUM, figur’d by Bejler, in Calceolarias s Mufaeum, and 
others with the Name of the Middle Cardamum. The Plant 
it felf, both Lefter, and Greater, deferibed and figur’d by 
Bontius 5 [a] who glories himfelf the firft that hath done (aj Hjft j 6 
it will. The Leffer grows about a yard high, with a joynted <*3<5. 
Stalk, like a Reed. But bears its Spikes, with the Flower 
and Seed, near the Root. The Greater grows two yards 
in height, the Stalk not joynted, with a Spike of Flowers 
at the top, fomewhat like to that of a Jacyntb. Both of 
them plentiful in Java. 
The Indians feafon all their boil’d Meats herewith, pre¬ 
ferring it before other Spices, as not being biting. 
That which is commonly received amongft Botanicks 
for the Greater kind, from the fiery hot Taft of its Seeds 
( called Grana Paradifi) feems to be no Cardamum, but of 
another Tribe. 
The PA Pi R-REED of Nile. Papyrus Nilotica. By the 
/Egyptians called Berd. Given by Sig r . Bocconeyvho brought 
it out of Sicily, where it grew. Deferibed and figur’d in 
Baubinus ; (b) who with Gefner, makes it a Species of Cy- (b)Uh. 18. 
perns, to which (in Leaf and Staff) it is like 5 but hath a c - 19 °- 
more compared Head. This feems to have been no tall Plant; 
but upon its Native Bed, /A near the Banks of the River 
G g Nile, 
