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TAB. XII. 



PAPILIO PASSIFLORjE. 



GREAT AMERICAN FRITtLLART. 



PA5SIFLOKA INCJRSATjt, 11 UK 



HAY-COCX. OH rLIUJICOLOUBKD PAtllOX^LOWfl 



1*. X. alU dcntati* fuUn nigro maculati*: fubtu* oawrib uig.Eiu argcuLcifa 



r. VMtiir ^-* ^f. .v* . r»?. 





0« of tliclc caterpillar* tied itfelf Up by the tail Jul* Mb. dunged to a ehrvuh* 

 J>lh# came forth in iu perfect lute l?th. Thi* Iprcie* 1* tome-time* plentiful, but 

 in funK- years very rare, It is not in Virginia, It* food U the mavcoek. P^ffi- 

 y/iw/ inrtmiftt/i, ihc pod of which when ripe is full of feed* furrounded with pale 

 ycllowiili pulp, tailing liLe an orange, but fainter, ami ia calm by many people. 

 The plant i> a (roublelomc weed when it gets any footing. 





We ado;rt tJic alteration of the name of tlii* fly by Profcflbr Fabriciut, beeauie Mr* Ab- 

 bot' » obferration* confirm thole of Mr. Von Rolu* * t that iu real food U of tlw pafltoo*flo«*r 

 Kind i and although it may alfo cat -»\mrftr, yet bcinR found in climate* inhere that tender 

 and local plant neter jj;row&, it mull certainly hire fomcthing clfc to depend on* The rof- 

 fton-flower and (lie vjnr//j are both placed by JJti»;ru» in liii licterogcticout t'jfi (hwtkfru: 

 He thai I not from thi* infect* feeding on both draw an argument of their affinity, and Ukdk 

 of the nitnralncft of the Unruran fyflcm. That would be as little to the purpefc- a* many 

 tiling tlut liave been urged agaitul tliii famous fj firm : moic efpeojllr at the penut uf iW- 

 //if./ doc* not in any manner properly belong to Gjnt*frkt, but i* rightly removed, by the 

 cdfbraEtd Schreter, to PatUnJri* Trigwu, the ftamina not being inferted above the gennep, 

 but below iL 



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