. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . he criclvets were representedby the common, field Pennsylvania species, and doubtlessthis group was represented by more species that had escapedmy attention. In the late fall the varied-wing locust was an occasionalvisitor, during its whimsical flights of crossing the open, sunnygrounds; while in the spring and early summer the ground inthe thicket shown to the left was constantly frequented bythe yellow-wing l
. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . he criclvets were representedby the common, field Pennsylvania species, and doubtlessthis group was represented by more species that had escapedmy attention. In the late fall the varied-wing locust was an occasionalvisitor, during its whimsical flights of crossing the open, sunnygrounds; while in the spring and early summer the ground inthe thicket shown to the left was constantly frequented bythe yellow-wing locust. In addition to the foregoing picture showing special habitats,I present herewith, in the second landscape, a view of therear of our grounds. It was taken on September eighteenth,at the close of summer, but at the height of the grass-hopper season. In the foreground the abandoned strawberrypatch, which had formerly been under cultivation, is nowgiven over to weeds, which have developed in the right-hand lower corner of the picture is a bunch ofpearly everlasting in full blossom. Its white flowers showconspicuously just in front of evening primroses and golden-. Tin, M \; Kai-vdid (Siiiddcrid ) Bexniix llif Kii/,i/(li(l ii/lcii Jiiiiiirl on i^oUlrii mil m lln mradii-cs, l/ic /niiliusli hug (Ilii/iiuilii icii/ffii) liirLs in tliixc Jloicrrx (iirailiiig nil njijiiirliniUil In xcizc xiiiiie siiifill i/iXLcl. From a pholognipli ECOLOGY — INTERPRETATION OF .ENVIRONMENT 329 rods. Cultivated and wild blackberries and dewberries occupythe middle portion of the landscape, on this top of a sandy other plants in view of the observer are the knotweedor Polygonium, ragweed, wild lettuce, and grasses. A super-ficial humus only, covers the surface of the sandy earth. The largest tree in the distance to the right is a maple, whilein the farther distance, willows appear; the remotest distance
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