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nanced this error, was Father Torrubia, 
in his " Apparato para la Hiftoria naturali 
EJpanola,'' •printed at Al-adrtd. Fol. 1754. 
He defcribes and figures a prickly plant, 
vegetating from a dead wafp. Both thefe 
produftions are figured by Mr. Edwards, 
in the third part of his Gleanings," tab. 
335> 336. 
The fecond paper is a Defcription, ac- 
companied by a large engraving gf the 
American Armadillo, called Dafypus no- 
uemcinBiis by Linn^us, the nine-banded 
Armadillo {0). 
In 1758, was printed part of a letter to 
Dr. HuxHAM, being an account of fome 
extraordinary effedls arifing from convul- 
fions, in a young lady, which ended in a 
deprivation of fpeech, and temporary blind- 
nefs. Thefe fy mptoms lafled fourteen 
months, and were at laft fuddenly removed 
after fhe had heated herfelf by four hours 
dancing 
*^ Some Obfervations relating to the Lyn-' 
curium q{ the Antients tending to prove 
{q) Phil. Tranf, Vol. liv. p. 57. t. 7. 
ip) lb. Vol. 1. p. 743. 
that 
