DIREC TIONS 
FOR BRINGING OYER 
SEEDS AND PLANTS, 
FROM 
THE EAST-INDIES 
AND 
OTHER DISTANT COUNTRIES, 
I N 
A STATE OF VEGETATION: 
TOGETHER WITH 
A Catalogue of fuch Foreign Plants as are worthy of being encouraged 
in our American Colonies, for the Purpofes of Medicine, Agricul- 
ture, and Commerce. 
TO WHICH IS ADDED, 
The £igw » nn d Botanical Defcription of a new Sensitive Plant, called 
D I O N iE A MUSCIPULA: 
O R, 
VENUS’s FLY-TRAP, 
BY 
JOHN ELLIS, F. R. S. 
LONDON, 
Printed j and fold by L. DAVIS, Printer to the Royal Society, 
oppofite Gray’s-Inn, Holborn e 
MDCUXX, 
