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II is ne ighbour's Work-people had, most of them, sonae degree of the colica Pictonum, and divers of them severetv. The cyder Was the fame, and given in like quantities; the peopte Worked in the fame ne igh bourhood, and at the sanae se ason. On inquiring into the cause of this singulardifferetice, it was found that my acquaintance hadalways sent his cyder to the sield in a s mali bar rei ; and that his neighbour had as constantly made use of a glared carthen pitcher for this Pharposse. The cyder Was thin and sharp ; theglaging was almost dissolved, and moli probablywas the Cata se of the complainis. This instance may 1erve as a Very useful lesson to many peopletander the like circumstances ; and to corroborate the eviden ce respecting the noxious est edis oflead, at ready submitted to the Public by Drs. Baher, Percivat, and other sensibi e writera.
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F Cannot gize a better explanation of the originy the folio ing hisorical account of Ossee, than in the wor is of Dr. Pothergili hin et .
her colonies 'Prom a πω h, in the compilation biob Dr.
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THE characters of that genus os planis called CoppEΑ by Linnaeus, who places itin the firIt order of his fifth classe, that is, among
the Pentandria Monogdinia, or planis that havefive male organs and sollom: CALIX. Perianthium quadridentaliam, minimUm, germini insiden S.COROLLA. Petalum infundibuli forme. bus cylindracetis, te nul8, Calyce multoties
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nus, quinquepartitUS, tubo longior; laciniis lanceolatis, lateribus revolutis. STAMINA . Filamenta quinque, subulata, tubo corollae imposita Antherae lineares, incumbenteS, longitudine filamen
sub rotundum. Stylus simplex, longitudine corollae. Stigmata duo, reflexa, s UbU- lata crassiusCUla. PIRI CARPIUM. Baccasu brotunda, puncto umbilicata.
The Pisil consists of a roundissi germen, Orembryo seed vesset. The style is straight
The Fruit is a roundissiberry, marhed at thetop With a puncture like a navel
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SEMINA . Bina, elliptico - hemisphaerica, hinc gibba, inde plana, arillo involuta. Ιt has two see is, of an
one fide, and flat onthe other each o whicli is enclosed in
parchment. Linnaeus has omitted taking notice of the septum ormembrane that divides the seeds into tino celis or loculamenis; and alὶ the litile furroru on the fiat si de of each ed.-It frequently happens, that in the Mocha Cossee onlyone sted is to be found, the other being desective.
from Linnaeus 's Amoenitat. Academ. Vol. VI. P. I 69. Arbor simplex, erecta, minus alia; Ramis longis, simplicibus, laxis & fere nutantibus, vestitis Foliis op possitis, laurinis, sem pervirentibUS, Ornata Floribus albis sessilibus, sere Jasmini corolla, qUibus Bacca cerasorum facie rUbicundae succedUnt,
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a8έ A Botanical Description of
mucilaginosa, fatUa intus gerentes semina duo, dura, hinc Con-VeXa, inde Plana, arillo cartilagineo Vestitδ
seeds, Convex on theone side, and stat onthe other, whicli are covered with a Carti laginous membraneor parchment.
This Tree is a native os Arabia Felix, and of Ethiopia The Synonyms, or Names gioen to ibi; Tree bdimerent AuthorS. Cossea DArabica, J floribus quinquefidis disper mis. I in n. Spec. plant. Ed. II. P. I S. Jasminum Arabicum, lauri solio, cujus semen apud nos Coste dicitur. Jus . adi. Gall. ITIS P. 388, t. 7.Jasminum Arabicum, castaneae solio, flore albo odoratissimo. Titi. Dis. 87. t. 32. Eu onymo similis AEgyptica, fructu baccis lauri simili. Bauli. Pin. 498. Pluli. Phyt. 272. f. I.
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Explanation of the Leiters in the Plate, πhich have a Referetice to the Dissemon of the Flo er and
C. The fruit intire; marhed at the topwith a puncture, like
D. The fruit open, tosaew that it consists of two seeds, whichare surrounded by the pulP. E. The fruit cut horizontally, to saew theseeds as they are placed eredi, withtheir flat sides to-gether. F. One of the seedstaken oui, With the
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HE earliest account We have of Cossee istahen Dom an Arabian manu script in the Κing of France's library, Ν' 9 4, and is as sol- Schehabeddin Ben, an Arabian author of the ninth century of the Hegira, or fifteenth of the Christians, attributes to Gemaleddin, Mus ti os Aden, a city of Arabia Felix, who Was ne arly his Cotemporary, the fit st introduction in to that country of di inhing Comee. He telis has, that Gemaleddin, having occasion to travel into Per sia, during his abode there saι sonae of his countrymen drini ing Cossee, Whicli at that timehe did not much attend to ; but, on his returnio Aden, sinding himself in disposed, and re membering that he had seen his countrymendrini ing Cossee in Persia, in hopes of receivingsonae benefit frona it, he determined to try it on