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37 

 TAR XIX. 



PA PI LI O TITYRUS. 

 great su,vi-:it~sroTTi-;i> skippkh iii;ttkrflt. 



KOniNIA PSKUnO-JCJCIJ. LINN. /v/tf. 



KED.1TL0WS1BD FALSI* ACACIA, 



P. P. ali* fubcaudatit fu&ii: antici* utnwmc fafria flava; potlkb fubtn* flrigi argent 



ca. 



Tin* caterpillar wis taken feeding on the wild loctiil tree the biter and of AogaA. 



It fpin* the leaven together to ircurc itlHt" tVom birds &c< likr the rrft of thlfl tribe. 

 Oh the Ath of September i: ijvun up in the leave*, und became a din fa tin two tbya 

 after. Thclmllcrtlvvvaaprodiiccd the totb of April following, h u alto a native 

 of Virginia, but not very common. 



Although we never heard of the common AV*\™ Pfa*h~A*atu varying from it* ufual while 

 colour to red, we cannot poitibly fuppofc the drawing of Mr* Abbot to reprcfrm any other 

 fpecic*. a* in every oilier refj»cc"t it llriLingly and minutely agree* wiih ih.it. 



The genu* of Rtfitri* *a* named after a French botamrl, of whom the following anecdote* 

 may not be unacceptable to the E-luglith reader. The jaflage i* tnnlhtcd from *WU*fa 

 flf$urt 4t At Utttrmtmti par \h Jt Fifwvf'Marviilf* tJ. 4, Pmu. 171a, t\L I. 25*, the 

 real author of which wort wa» a crurtrcux monk, Don Bonavcnturc d'Argotinc, the Zoilu* 

 of l)c la Braycrc* 



"Jfrmxrt IMinutt keeper of the royal botanic jpjucn (it Pari*), rrat tvmihit* lie wa» 

 " the nvoft curious botanilt of hit time. Hi* portrait, engraved at iheeapenec of hUfrietidi, 

 "may be found with a collection of flower* and planu which he Iiad cultivated, accompanied 

 "with thbdjjlidi, 



* Omw* W*b* wti 



" Qun tuiit IWfrrUm. rouhli q»* ft rtllli Itxiut. 



"" llcfturm fj*cva hnit hie unui raa 



41 He wat tine firil who railed the ^terAi in France, and he fall gaie a vogue ro tuberoic*, 

 ** which before hi* tunc were known only in Provence. There never was a man more totid 

 * of flown*. WhMCTO fobjeft W|i mentioned to Jiim, he alnjy* turned it toward* hU fi* 

 ** vourile purfuit; which made M* Ruin Uy r he would occafion an alteration of the t>roicrb, 

 " it rrmmJt R&hrttf kii jFt/fti, into it rrm&dt Rttrx of Ait fivitrrt* The lime M# Pa tin. called 

 ™ him /-umifAu Ib/ftriJiMi but a jealou* eunuch, fo jealou* of tn* flower*, thai lie bad 

 v rather dcilrov their bulbs tluu communicate any to hit friends A certain imvfictan, en* 

 41 raged ■! itii* illllxrality, addulled a icrj- cruel fdtirc in Latin to M. Hobiti, with tltc l<£~ 

 ■ lowing title: 



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