THE Rhubarb of the Levant is the Root of a Plant, of which I know not positively the true Place where it grows, any more than the Figure of the Plant: For this Reason I was oblig'd to take the Impression which is represented by Dodonaeus, it not being possible otherwise to get the true Figure of the Leaves, and the Manner how they are dispos'd. For the Flowers, I have had a good Quantity of them presented to me by a Friend.
Dalechamp, in the 558th Page of his Second Volume of the History of Plants, makes a large Discourse of this Rhubarb, and of the Place from whence it is brought to us; but he, and other Authors that write about it, speak so variously there is nothing to be depended on: But I shall give you an Account of what was writ to me from Marseilles the 25th of July 1692.