. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . Nj ^PT ; those beautiful green caterpil-lars : parsley, fennel, carrot, cel-ery, poison - hemlock, ciciita, shnn, dill,caraway, anise, wild-carrot, sanicle, an-gelica, archangelica, lovage, and water-pennywort. This list in itself would not strikethe ordinary observer as especially re-markable, and would seem haphazard enough to justifythe poets charge of heedlessness. It is not until weturn to our botany with our list that we learn its sur-prising meaning. Here we find all these plantsgrouped under the on
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . Nj ^PT ; those beautiful green caterpil-lars : parsley, fennel, carrot, cel-ery, poison - hemlock, ciciita, shnn, dill,caraway, anise, wild-carrot, sanicle, an-gelica, archangelica, lovage, and water-pennywort. This list in itself would not strikethe ordinary observer as especially re-markable, and would seem haphazard enough to justifythe poets charge of heedlessness. It is not until weturn to our botany with our list that we learn its sur-prising meaning. Here we find all these plantsgrouped under the one order, Umbcllifcrce, or theparsley family. The Asterias butterfly is an expert specialist in thisone family of plants, and has never been known to gooutside of it in its selection of food plants for its , then, those caterpillars and the lesson thatthey teach, for upon whatever plant you find them,you may instantly class it as a member of the parsleyfamily. Then there are the Semicolon and Comma butterfliesthat will lead you to all the plants of the nettle fam-ily, wh
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