. Strolls by starlight and sunshine;. Natural history. 134 STARLIGHT AND SUNSHINE. already been bestowed upon another widely different class of plants. This Philodice butterfly is one of our most accomplished botanical authorities—a botanist who knows beans, in very truth; for where is the genus of the bean tribe of vegetation that it has skipped in the choice of foster-plants for that future offspring? Lima beans, scarlet-runners, peas, sweet-peas, wild-bean, indigo, red clover, hop clover, white clover, puss clover, medic, ;..„. -\. ..., "-^ medicago, lucern, melilot, -<f rattlebox,
. Strolls by starlight and sunshine;. Natural history. 134 STARLIGHT AND SUNSHINE. already been bestowed upon another widely different class of plants. This Philodice butterfly is one of our most accomplished botanical authorities—a botanist who knows beans, in very truth; for where is the genus of the bean tribe of vegetation that it has skipped in the choice of foster-plants for that future offspring? Lima beans, scarlet-runners, peas, sweet-peas, wild-bean, indigo, red clover, hop clover, white clover, puss clover, medic, ;..„. -\. ..., "-^ medicago, lucern, melilot, -<f rattlebox, vetch, and rf many more—all of the leguminous or bean "^ Here is a near European relative of this same butterfly which feeds upon " Coronilla and broom and other diadelphous plants," and another allied spe- that feeds upon Cytisus, all of which our botany of course includes under Leguminosce. It is interesting to note further that certain other individ- uals in this same butterfly tribe, Colias (exotic species in the heart of Brazil), continue the list among the tropica] Leguminoscs; all of which proves the close affinity be- tween the animated winged genus, Colias, and the " winged " co- rollas of the pea-blossomed flowers. In the agile white-banded "skipper" (Tityrus) we have an- other remarkable illustration of discrimination among the same order of plants, for this butterfly, like most of its tribe, is partial to " a mess of beans," and are indeed discriminating " skippers" of all but "pulse and ; The curious, big-headed caterpillar may be disclosed in its cocoon-like nest of leaves among the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896. New York, Harper & brother
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