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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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With
this
story
may
be
compared
that
of
the
oyster-bearing
tree,
which
Bishop
Fleetwood
describes
in
his
"Curiosities
of
Agriculture
and
Gardening,"
written
in
the
year
1707.
The
oysters
as
seen,
he
says,
by
the
Dominican
Du
Tertre,
at
Guadaloupe,
grew
on
the
branches
of
trees,
and,
"are
not
larger
than
the
little
English
oysters,
that
is
to
say,
about
the
size
of
a
crown-piece.
They
stick
to
the
branches
that
hang
in
the
water
of
a
tree
called
Paretuvier.
No
doubt
the
seed
of
the
oysters,
which
is
shed
in
the
tree
when
they
spawn,
cleaves
to
those
branches,
so
that
the
oysters
form
themselves
there,
and
grow
bigger
in
process
of
time,
and
by
their
weight
bend
down
the
branches
into
the
sea,
and
then
are
refreshed
twice
a
day
by
the
flux
and
reflux
of
it."
Kircher
speaks
of
a
tree
in
Chili,
the
leaves
of
which
brought
forth
a
certain
kind
of
worm,
which
eventually
became
changed
into
serpents;
and
describes
a
plant
which
grew
in
the
Molucca
Islands,
nicknamed
"catopa,"
on
account
of
its
leaves
when
falling
off
being
transformed
into
butterflies.
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