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Linnaeus has obferved this property in many plants, and calls it their 



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The Caftiarinn eqmfetifolm affords a very hard and pohderous 



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wood, of wh 



make the clubs ufed 



and 



war is called in their language toa, they have adopted the 



tree. The feeds of the urena Mata have th 



name o 



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for the 



fa mi* 



quality as the burdock buttons in our country 



kicking to peopl 



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cloaths; and as the wovdiftrree has the fignification of glueing 



)ining fail together, they call the ^XdXit. plrree-p\ 



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ircumftances, feem to prove the figacity and the 



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All thefe 



of 



bft 



of this people, who have inveiligated very carefully all the 



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plants of 



ountry, and attended to their various qual 



which they have preferved in the very name of the plant. Nor has 

 their fpirit of obfervation been wanting in diflingulfhing the various 

 parts of plants: thus for inftance the roots are called e'd -, tobmoo h 



the part of th 



flem 



wi 



th 



the ground, (caiidex intra terfam) 



and e-ra-ou is the name for the flem ab 



to 



called ama. the leaves elou, the middle fli 



d j the branches 

 mnouy the flower 



the fruit booerro. What made me mofl attentive to thefe 



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trifles arc the names orbe for the fpatha oi the flowers of the 

 nut, and that of te-fevaye, fignifying the bradeal leaves of a 

 plant 'y which nice diflindlions certainly prove a particular attention 

 in difcrlminating thefe parts from the refl iii a plant, and that they 

 hadin a manner, made botany their particular Audy ; In which 



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