The classes and orders of the Linnæan system of botany, illustrated by select specimens [by R. Duppa]. - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...niger. Ad tibiarum cantus expelitur. E radice cultellis capulos, brevesque alios usus excogitant. Haec ibi natura arboris.--Pliny, lib. siii. c. If. De arbore Loio. Monogy-gingerbread, and is sold in the markets alt One Pittiiiua over soutnern districts of these kingr doms. The Arabs call it Aneb Enta El Seedra, i. e. the Jujeb of the Seeclra."1: Mungo Park, in his travels in the interior of Africa, observed two negroes sitting among some thorny bushes, who had been gathering tomberongs, of which he gives this account:--" These are small farinaceous berries, of a yellow colour and delicious taste, which were no other than the fruit of the Rhamnus Lotus of Linnseus. They had gathered two large baskets-full in the course of the day. These berries are much esteemed by the natives, who convert them into a sort of bread, by exposing them for some days to the sun, and afterwards pounding them gently in a wooden mortar, until the farinaceous part of the berry is separated from the stone. This meal is then mixed with a little water, and formed into cakes, which, when dried in the sun, resemble in colour and flavour the sweetest gingerbread. The stones are afterwards put into a vessel of water, and shaken about, so as to separate the meal which may still adhere to them; this communicates a sweet and agreeable taste to the water, and with the Dr. Shaw's Travels, 4to. p. 143, addition of a little pounded millet makes a Monogv 1 N1A pleasant gruel called 1'ondi. which is the com r s.. One Pistillum. mon breakfast in many parts of Ludamar, during the months of February and March. The fruit is collected by spreading a cloth upon the ground, and beating the branches with a stick. "The Lotus is very common in all the kingdoms which I visited, but is found in...

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