310 SALAD PLANTS. 



they so nearly resemble certain species of caterpillars as to 

 completely deceive the uninitiated or inexperienced. 



Species. The species cultivated are the following, viz. : 



Common Pod, or fruit, comparatively large. The in- 



Caterpillar. J 



Vil. tenor grooves, or furrows, are indistinct, or 



SCORPIITRUS VER- . 



MICULATA. quite wanting ; the exterior grooves are ten in 

 number, and well defined. Along the summit of these fur- 

 rows are produced numerous small, pedicelled tubercles, 

 quite similar to those of some species of worms or caterpil- 

 lars ; and these small tufts, in connection with the brownish- 

 green color and peculiar coiling of the pods, make the resem- 

 blance nearly perfect, especially if seen from a short distance. 

 The seeds are large, oblong, flattened at the ends, and of a 

 yellowish color. A well-developed fruit will measure about 

 three eighths of an inch in diameter, and, when uncoiled, 

 nearly an inch and a half in length. 



Furrowed Fruit rather slender, furrowed, grayish-green 

 Caterpillar. J 



vu. within the furrows, and brown along the sum- 



SCOKPIURUS SUL- 



CATA. mi ts. Four of the exterior furrows are sur- 

 mounted with numerous small, obtuse, or rounded tubercles ; 

 and the pods are coiled in the manner peculiar to the class. 

 The seeds resemble those of the Prickly Caterpillar, but 

 are of larger size. 



Prickly Cater- Pod, or fruit, a fourth of an inch in cliam- 



pillar. ViL 

 SMALL CATERPIL- eter, brownish-red, with shades of green. The 



LAR. SCORPIURUS 



MURICATA. seeds are large, long, wrinkled, and of a yel- 

 lowish color. 



Villous or This species resembles the Prickly Caterpil- 

 Hairy Cater- 

 pillar, lar, but is a little larger. The most marked 



SCORriURUS SUB- 



VILLOSA. distinction, however, is in the small points, or 



