If. Some Obfervations made at a Meeting 
the Royal Society^ Concerning fame Wonder- 
ful Contri'vances of Nature in a Family of 
Plants in Jamaica, to pcrfeSi the Indi<z/idtmm^ 
and propagate the Species^ TPith federal In- 
fiances analogous to them in European Vegeta- 
bles. By Hans Sloane, M. D. 
TH E many Contrivances oi Nature, or rather the 
Supreme Being, who Created, and orderly di- 
fpo(ed all things, to bring to Perfedion feveral Vege- 
tables and Animals ; and atter the unavoidable diffoluti- 
on of the hdiv'tduum, to keep the Species from being 
loft, notwithftanding many adverfe Contingencies and 
Neceflary Ends they are defign'd to ferve, feems on ma- 
ny Accounts to Deferve , if not Require our Regard 
and Attention. Thofe who fpend forae of their time 
in thefe Obfervations, will not want Occafions of Ad- 
miring the great Wifdom and Power of the firft Con- 
triver and Preferver of all things^^ nor Means, by imi- 
tating Nature, to bring fome of the moft ufeful Arts 
to a greater Perfedion, then hitherto they have come. 
I lhall at this time endeavour to Entertain the Society 
wiih fome Obfervations of this kind, that I thought 
fufficiently Recompens'd fome pains I was at, by the 
pleafure I had in admiring the Mechanifms I met with , 
then fticw the things themfelves to ihe Members pre- 
fent. 
In Jamaica, the Neighbouring Ifles, and Continent 
of America, grow many* forts of Mijfeltoe^ Parafitical 
R Plants, 
