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Title: Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865 Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889
Subjects: Zoology -- Guyana Zoology -- South America Guyana -- Description and travel South America -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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cally as Caryophyllusaromaticus. It is one of the myrtle tribe. The name cloveis a corruption of the French name clou, the dried flowersbearing some resemblance to a nail. Cocoa-nut Palm (Cocos nuci/era).—-Essentially a sea-sidetree, and apparently not a native of the West Indies, but im-ported, either by man or by the wind and waves. It growsfreely in India and the South Sea Islands, as well as in theWest Indies, and reaches a height of a hundred feet. The nut grows in a very curious manner. When it hasfallen, one of the three holes gives way to a shoot, which strikesout a root, piercing into the ground, while it still retains itsconnection by a sort of cord, with the nut from which it drawsits nourishment, until it is strong enough to obtain the wholeof its sustenance from the ground. See the fallen nuts in theforeground of the illustration. It has a • cabbage like that of the cabbage palm, and issometimes cut down for the sake of obtaining this vegetable. EXPLANATORY INDEX. 391
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COCOA PALM AND COCAL. 392 EXPLANATORY INDEX. Toddy is simply the fermented juice of the tree; coir is madefrom the husk, which is also cut up into scrubbing-brushes forhousehold use ; and the porcupine wood of the cabinet-maker is obtained from the dense and heavy wood near theroot. The long groves of Cocoa palms are called cocals, and some-times extend for several miles along the shore. The Cocoapalm should not be confounded with the cacao, of whichchocolate and cocoa are made, and which is a totally differentplant, belonging to the genus Theohroma. Cock of the Rock (Rujncola crocea).—This fine bird isthe largest of the Manakins, q.v., and on account of the beauty

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