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22 Growth of Vegetables on the bodies of Animals. 
_lontha, or May-bug, whose grub is destructive, at times, te 
the roots of grass in meadows and pastures. The vegetable 
was single, and had been somewhat injured by handling and 
transportation ; yet the lower part of the stem and the point 
of attachment, were very distinct. My informant assured 
~ me, that, when picked up, the vegetables were complete in 
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this, and various other specimens. ut there was no more 
than one on each. $ 
Some years afterwards, another vegetating insect was pre- 
sented to me by the Jate William M. Ross, M. D., who ob- 
tained it in the Island of Jamaica, daring his residence there. 
It was a full grown individual of a Sphynx or Hawk-moth, 
whose whole body had been covered with a vegetable crop, 
issuing thick from the thorax and abdomen. 
Another Sphynx, with its body covered with a harvest of 
parasitical vegetables, has since been exhibited to me, by 
J. B. Ricard Maddiana, M. D. who brought it from the Isl- 
The same gentleman, distinguished for his researches in 
different departments of natural science, gave me several 
vegetating wasps (vespz) procured by himself in the same 
ace, where he resided several years. A fortunate incident 
brought very interesting facts to his knowledge, at Bay- 
Mahant, near the small river du Cain. On the 16th June, 
1823, as he was on a botanizing excursion, he saw, lying om 
the a wasp’s nest, which had, by means unknown to 
him, been separated from a branch of the Laurus persea, 
{avocatier,) near which it had fallen. The creatures were 
in a strange condition after this disaster to their dwelling. 
Some were flitting about over the cells, and by the softness of 
their wings, and the faintness of their colours, were easily 
known to have been hatched but a short time. Many others 
were lying dead on the ground. On examining these he in- 
