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Show 236 TEA TREE. imported into Europe was about nineteen millions of pounds, of whichit is conjectured that twelve millions were consumed in Great Britain and its dependencies *. Sir George Staunton informs us, that the annnal publie sales of tea by our East India Companydid not, in the beginning of theeighteenth century, much exceedfifty thousand pounds weight, independently of what little might be then perhaps clandestinely imported. The Company’s annual sales now(the year 1797) approach to twentymillions of pounds; being an increase of four hundredfold in less than one hundred years, and answers to the rate of more than a poundeach, in the course ofthe year, for theindividuals of all ranks, sexes and ages, throughout the British dominions in Europe and America. Since the year 1797, it is probable that the importationof tea has much increased, and that at least thirty millions of pounds are annually imported into Europe alone +. Since the free use of tea, the stone has become a very rare disease in England {. * Robertson’s India, p. 252. + Embassy, vol. i. p. 22. + In this one instance I have deviated from the regularity of system by making our account of Tea follow Coffee. GREAT BROAD-LEAVED MULLEIN. VERBASCUM THAPSUS. Class V. Pentandria. Order 1. Monogynia. Erssxr, GEN. Cuar. Corolla rotate, somewhat unequal: Capsule threecelled, two-valved. Brec. Caar. Leaves decurrent, on each side tomentose: Stem simple. rE DESCRIPTION. Tur stem rises two or three feet in height, and is irregularly adorned with leaves, which are large, without footstalks, at the base decurrent, oblong, pointed, indented at the margin, and Covered on both sides with fine down, or hair. The flowers are |