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iinous fubftance, ifi which the feed is lodged, 
as mifletoe. The feeds of aquatic plants, and 
thofe which grow on the banks of rivers, are 
carried many miles by the currents, into which 
they fall ; fome of the American fruits, 
among which is the cocoa-nut (cocos), are 
annually thrown on the coafts of Norway. 
Some account of thefe emigrant feeds, with 
fome beautiful lines to which this wonderful 
fact has given rife, may be feen in the Botanic 
Garden*, a book which contains fuch variety 
of knowledge, on the fubjecl of botany, and 
that knowledge fo diftinctly and agreeably 
given, that there cannot be one from which 
more information or amufement can be de- 
rived. — Birds are the means of diifeminating 
fome kind of feeds, either by dropping them 
as they carry them from place to place, or by 
parting with them whole, after they have 
fwallowed them. In this w T ay feeds' are fre- 
quently dropped in the hollows of trees, in 
w T hich fituation, if they meet with a fufficient 
quantity of foil and moifture, they vegetate, 
and make an extraordinary appearance, form- 
ing an union of two diftincl: Ipecies. A 
* See Part the Second, p. 128, 1. 411. 
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