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toa-bomva the cawl or omentum. Befides they know all the 

 plants and animals that are to be found in their ifles, or in the fea« 



furroundin«: them, and have peculiar mmes for 



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them : nay, they feem to have examined the nature of each plant. 



and animal, fmce the name oft 



prelTes a pecul 



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the plant or animal. 



Thus for inftance, there is at Taheitee- sb 



kind of Loranthusy which, like all the -plants of this genus,- 

 grows on the branches and flems of other trees, like the mijletoe-,, 

 and which probably is diffeminated and propagated in the fame 

 manner, the feeds being firft eaten by bird-s, and; then voided on 



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the branch of a tree, whereon they germinate and grow: this plant 

 the natives call toofe^oopa., dove's dung, from a kind of dove|. 



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(oo-oopa) which is particularly fond of the feeds of this loranthus. 



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There is a new fpecies of phyjlantbus., whofe leaves fhut up during 

 night, which might not improperly be called the Jleepmg of tKe 

 plant, and the natives have been fhrewd enough to catch this little 



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circumftance, and to call tlie plant from thence, moe-moe, Jlcepy, 



Linnasus 



the moxa by Letwwmhock. See Roh, HioJis Philo/ophkal 'E:fperiments and'Ohfer'vations, p. 73. 

 The: reft of the authors who have written on the 7noxa^vc 7ale7itinm Epiftola adCleyerum^ in the 



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Afta. Nat. Cur* K^mpfer in his Amcenitaies Exotka p. 589. fec^;. and in the :HhT:ory of 

 Japan, vol. 11. appendix p. 37* Laftly, Pstrus Jsrms Berber Mauris MeMia e reg?w 

 vegetal hi, p. 673. 



