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thofe on other fprigs. One of the harder branches 
being cut, emitted a liquor, which was very clear, and | 
of a bright greenith colour, bitter in tafte, and fome- 
what refembling that of liquorice. The above ex- 
periments were made by Dr. Hook on fome {fenfitive - 
plants growing in a garden in St. James’s park. 
In the paflage of the ifthmus from Nombre de Dios © 
to Panama, in America, there is related to be a whole © 
wood fullof fenfitive plants, which ‘being touched, 
clofe their leaves with’a rattling noife, and thus twift 
themfelves into a winding figure, 


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