Directions for bringing over seeds and plants, from the East-Indies and other distant countries, in a state of vegetation together with a catalogue of such foreign plants as are worthy of being encouraged in our American colonies, for the purposes of medicine, agriculture, and commerce. To which is added, the figure and botanical description of a new sensitive plant, called Dionaea muscipula: or, Venus's fly-trap by John Ellis, F.R.S
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