On the spikenard of the ancients / By Charles Hatchett.

  • Charles Hatchett
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[1836]
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    ON THE SPIKENARD OF THE ANCIENTS. BY CHARLES HATCHETT, Esq. F.R.S. &c. The History of the Nardus Indica or Spikenard of the Ancients had been long involved in doubt and obscurity, until the late Sir Gilbert Blane made a communication upon the subject in the year 1790, to the Royal Society, and satisfactorily corroborated the opinion of Linnaeus, who in his system, had arranged it in the order of Grasses;—and although Sir William Jones, in a Paper published in the Second Volume of the Asiatic Researches, arguing as a Philologer, rather than as a Botanist, did not agree with Linnaeus, but thought the true Nardus Indica, to be a plant known in India by the name of Jatainansi, yet taking all circumstances into consideration, there is every reason to believe that Linnaeus was in the right when he classed it with the Grasses, and the facts detailed by Sir Gilbert Blane, with others which have been sub- sequently ascertained, leave scarcely any doubt, that the plant described by Sir Gilbert Blane is the true Spikenard of the Ancients. Sir Gilbert Blane was enabled to communicate this information, in consequence of having received a letter with a well preserved B
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