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infide is woolly; the tube is cylindrical; the 

 limhus is quaclrified and fhorter than the tube ; 

 the lacinia are oval and reflected; the filaments 

 are fattened to the tube, and four of them arc 

 a little lower than the other two; the antheras 

 are almoft oval, they lie acrofs the filaments, 

 and are compofed of two valves. This fhrub 

 grows in the fir- woods like our juniper ihrub, 

 and in other places out of town : it is called 

 Torvicho here, but in other places Tomif/o. 

 On this fhrub lives the Mcloc mojalis Linn. 

 fegmentorum abdominis marghiibus dorfalibm 

 rubris. 



Saltamatos are a fpecies of locufts, fo 

 called by the people here, which are fo be met 

 with in the above-mentioned fir- wood. They 

 were of fo remarkable a iize, that, when fly- 

 ing, they looked like little birds, which they 

 imitated farther in not fettling on the ground, 

 but always on high trees, and often at fiich a 

 height that they were fcarce vifible* 



Besides the Cocci net la feptem f unci at a^ I 

 gathered many fcarce infecls, mofl: of which 

 were deftroyed during my abfence from the 

 inn, all the apartments being open to every 



body. 



