$0 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



contrafts ; for the blue-bottle has narrow and {len- 

 der leaves ; but thofe of the poppy are broad, 

 with deep incifions. The blue-bottle has the co- 

 rolla of it's flowers radiating, and of a delicate 

 azure ; but thofe of the poppy are large, and of a 

 deep red. The blue-bottle throws out divergent 

 ftalks.; but thofe of the poppy are ftraight. We 

 find, befides, among the corn, the cockle, or corn- 

 rofe, which rifes to the height of the expanded 

 ear, with handfome purple flowers, in form of a 

 trumpet ; and the convolvulus, with a flefli-co- 

 loured flower, crawling up along the reeds, and 

 furrounding them with verdure, like a thyrfus. 

 There is a great variety of other vegetables ufually 

 to be found growing among corn, and forming 

 contrafts the mod agreeable, mod of them exhale 

 the fweeteft perfumes; and, when agitated by the 

 Summer's breeze, you would be difpofed, from 

 their undulation», to imagine the whole a fea of 

 verdure enamelled with flowers. Add to all the 

 reft a gentle ruftling of the ears againft each other, 

 moft agreeably foothing, which, by it's foft mur- 

 muring found, invites to fleep. 



Thefe lovely forefts of vegetable beauty are not des- 

 titute of inhabitants. You fee buftlmg about under 

 their Iliade, the green-coated fcarab, ftreaked with 

 gold, and the monoceros, of the colour of burnt 

 coffee. This laft infe3: takes delight in a hillock 



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