26 Growth of Vegetables on the bodies of Animals. 
rising to the height of several inches, that some of the wit~ 
nesses were inclined to believe the ihe was the tall black- 
berry, (rubus villosus.) The grab he means is found ix 
wood-yards, around the stumps of dead trees, and often in 
sward-ground ; in which latter it has been eri to do ex- 
tensive dama ‘ roots of and, some- 
times, every plant i in its way. In 1822, these Sevantator® not 
only killed the ae of large tracts, but also. preyed upon 
the maize and pota 
The like Spaieten have been noticed in Pennsylvania 
by Jacob Cist. His history of the insect, called Kewise the 
May-bug, illustrated by good figures from nate e, may be 
seen in Siliman’s American Journal of Science, dec fe Au- 
gust, 1824, (Vol. VILE. No. 2, p. 269 and seq.) In meadows, 
where they are abundant, it is not unusual to find a number 
of the larve bearing vegetable sprouts, in some instances 
three inches long. ‘These excrescences ge proc 
pace between the head and under part of the tho- 
rax, and, ina few i instances, from the mouth. Mr. C. thinks, 
correctly, these are a species of fungus ; though he observes 
there is a vulgar but prevailing notion, that suck grubs are 
changed to briars! Usually there is but a single vegetable 
on an individual He 
b, thongh two now and then occur 
says, in every case a. Ps rve vegetation, the 
grub was not only de but decayed. ~The s rising” 
above the surface of ground, is the indication where the 
animal lies, Mr. ©, supposes the seed, swallowed by the 
grub, causes the Mi) and, after that event, germinates in 
the decaying remain 
On a survey of id ad the following inferences seem to 
be warranted: 
Z at that this kind of vegetation is not confined to a sin- 
s of insect ; but obtains in several, to wit, the Wasp, 
cand Melolontha. There is strong reason to suppose 
it ahd to others. 
Secondly, that these ils: the bodies of inseets, nourish» 
more than one species of vegetable, as the spheeria, clavaria, 
imens of larva or grubs. 
as han a single vegetabl 
letter, dated at Sangamon, Hlinois, May 4, 1826, he writes that 
ay, plough ; umber of t 
o raised the. es 
n fall. T 
ariably near the head 24 the creature, and in some aapnehs sprout 
ed sSevlee } 5, like leaves : 
