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for example, as the mosquito and the wasp, the females are 

 the only aggressors. The male mosquito cannot bite, nor the 

 male wasp sting, nor the male Chigoe form its irritating 

 nest. 



There is now before me one of these female Chigoes, with 

 the abdomen fully swollen and full of eggs. It was sent to 

 me by a resident in the West Indies, who was kind enough 

 to allow it to inhabit his toe until it was sufficiently deve- 

 loped, and then removed it and preserved it for me. The 

 skin of the swollen abdomen is very tough, so that it can 

 easily be turned out of the hollow which it has formed. 

 The size of my specimen is as nearly as possible equal to 

 that of an ordinary sweet-pea. In some places the Chigoe is 

 called Chicorine. 



Cinnamon {Cinnamomum Zeylanicum). — Only the bark of 

 the young shoots is used. Ceylon is the chief country of the 

 cinnamon- It is allied to the common laurel. 



Clove. — The cloves of commerce are the unexpanded 

 flowers of a plant, known scientifically as Caryophyllus 

 aromaticus. It is one of the myrtle tribe. The name clove 

 is a corruption of the French name clou, the dried flowers 

 bearing some resemblance to a nail. 



Cocoa-nut Palm (Cocos nuci/era). — -Essentially a sea-side 

 tree, and apparently not a native of the West Indies, but im- 

 ported, either by man or by the wind and waves. It grows 

 freely in India and the South Sea Islands, as well as in the 

 West Indies, and reaches a height of a hundred feet. 



The nut grows in a very curious manner. When it has 

 fallen, one of the three holes gives way to a shoot, which strikes 

 out a root, piercing into the ground, while it still retains its 

 connection by a sort of cord, with the nut from which it draws 

 its nourishment, until it is strong enough to obtain the whole 

 of its sustenance from the ground. See the fallen nuts in the 

 foreground of the illustration. 



It has a '• cabbage " like that of the cabbage palm, and is 

 sometimes cut down for the sake of obtaining this vegetable. 



