This most peculiar and most extraordinary insect travels
up both the Rata and Perriri trees, and entering into the top, eats
its way, perforating the trunk of the tree until it reaches the
root, it then comes out of the root, and dies, or remains dormant, and
the plant propagates out of its head; the body remains perfect and
entire, of a harder substance than when alive. From this insect the
natives making a coloring for tattooing."
*(4) In mines and natural caves we find a species of cryptogamous
fungus that emits an intense phosphorescence.
*(5) The orchis, scabius and valisneria.
*(6) The corolla of this flower (Aristolochia Clematitis), which
is tubular, but terminating upwards in a ligulate limb, is inflated
into a globular figure at the base. The tubular part is internally
beset with stiff hairs, pointing downwards. The globular part contains
the pistil, which consists merely of a germen and stigma, together
with the surrounding stamens. But the stamens, being shorter than
the germen, cannot discharge the pollen so as to throw it upon the
stigma, as the flower stands always upright till after impregnation.
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