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OF PLANTS 



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bis travels In Africa fVc. the Cape, aflerts, that both a blac. and 

 ute h.irv caterpillar beco.T.es io poifonous, when it ^eds on a larc 

 2..a:that the natives put them n. bags, bruUe them, and a^ 

 r ""- ' ' . . -1. .1 Rnr i-hat- rhev are le 



fe 



poifon 



with them. 



pcifonous if tbey feed on lefs acrid vegetab 



^x fr 1.. are;t di^Brultv in deftroving the larvas, or grub?. 



There mult be g^reat aiaiLuu^y ■' ^ . < r v^o,.^ 



r • r Qo ^^rh\r\^ Tre luiurious to thc fruits and 



caterpillars, of many niieds, which are mjuii 



k 



D 



f plants, by any ch 



tures ; as ni 



ft 



1 fupp 



fo 



f them are uncommo 



h.rdy'or tenacious of Ufa. Mr. Gouch affirms that he kept th 



m or worm found in nuts, in brandy for feve 



w h i c h 



d 



d 1 remember p 



a 



orm, which came 



f,.om a perfon, who called it an afcaris, though .t was above an nch 

 L., and nearly as thick as a thin crow-quil , mto a f^turated foln- 

 tion of fugar of lead in water ; which l.ved many hours w>thou. 



pparent injury 



See Nicholfon's J 



No. 21, for Novembe 



798 



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A ^reat number of bees, as 



& _ 



of moth 



d 



fl 



muft be very 



f fruit 



flowers, and confequently to the prod 



of them plund 



th 



daries 



f th 



honey 



,n of fru ts, as all or tnem piuuuui ...v. „...--- . , , -A 



; thence derive the anthers and ftigmas^of therr adapted r^ounOr 



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d in Sea. VI. 6. 3 



This would be more deft 



the feminal produces of plants, but that many of them poffefs 



rans of defending their refervoirs of honey and yet of expofi 



.fluence ofthe air, feme of them by long wind 

 bottom of the tubes of the honey-fuckles, trefoil 



and lark 



Lrii: :t>.folium, delphinium, others ^ covering it with , 

 fool'as in monk(hood,aconitum ; others by a gUuen as ,„ a chfly 



filene, and 



„,euc ... ... fun-dew, drofera; others by contrading fome part of 



hiieaves or flowers, and deftroying the hoft.le infed as m d.oncea 

 mufcipula, and in apocynum androfemifolium ; and finally, many 



"her flowers have probably acquired the habit of fecret.ng more ho- 



iicy 



