. 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 . sh near theshore; her web contained two locusts. The spider was hanginghead downward in her usual position. She held one of hercaptives across her mandibles, intent upon sucking its the woods I came across a number of sassafras trees withthe small green drupes showing among the leaf clusters at theend of the branches. These round drupes containing the seeds Dichromorpha viridia. 298 NATURE SKETCHES IN
. 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 . sh near theshore; her web contained two locusts. The spider was hanginghead downward in her usual position. She held one of hercaptives across her mandibles, intent upon sucking its the woods I came across a number of sassafras trees withthe small green drupes showing among the leaf clusters at theend of the branches. These round drupes containing the seeds Dichromorpha viridia. 298 NATURE SKETCHES IN TEMPERATE AMERICA on long stems are aromatic in flavor. Isate in the season thethickened pedicles are red while the drupes turn blue. Ontasting these drupes, one is reminded of cardamom seeds, andthey are capable of making the mucous membrane of onesthroat somewhat irritated and sore. A trip to this region would not be complete without viewingthe agile, striped lizards common on the sand. One has tobe quiet in approaching them, for they easily take alarm andrun with great swiftness to their holes, which are often at theroots of bushes. They have certain selected localities where. Landscape in the sand dunes, showing the habitat of the striped lizard. The shrubbery and such plants as puccoon afford cover for them. they can almost always be found. I present herewith aphotographic view of the plant associations which is also thehabitat of this striped lizard. It was taken in the 26, 1908. Such flowers as lithospermum or puccoon and Arabis lyrata,and also oak leaves, sparingly covered the ground. I haveknown two such localities for a number of years past wherelizards remained constantly. I frequently found them here,climbing on the branches of the bushes after insects and runningacross the sand. The blow snake is also a common resident here. Whilewalking along near a bog under some trees, I heard a friend GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND SKETCHES AFIELD 299 some distance away ma
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