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XIV. 



JUNE 20th. 



Pui7)le-banded Wakerobin. — Buttercup. — Red Clover. — Cedar Bird. — 

 Singing Birds. — Night Hawk — its singular manners. — Appearance 

 of Forest. — Straightness and Nakedness of Forest Trees. — Process of 

 clearing Land. — Ornamental Trees. — Gloom of Forest. — Age of 

 Trees. — Tenacity of Life. — Pearl-crescent Fritillary. — Chequered 

 Skipper. — Small Copper. — Banded Purple — its Caterpillar and Chry- 

 salis. — Caterpillar of Forked — of Orange Comma. — Moths. — Twin- 

 eyed Hawkmoth, — Depredations of Mice. — Congregations of But- 

 terflies. — Voracity of a Bug. — Other Insects. — Decay of Trees, &c. 



Father. — Will you roam with me through the woods 

 for an hour or two, that we may see if nature has any no- 

 velties to offer us ? 



Charles. — Very willingly : but it appears to be rather 

 a dull time in every department except entomology : insects 

 are numerous enough ; but the birds seem to have all de- 

 serted us, and the trees manifest no change, except a greater 

 depth and density of foliage. 



F. — Here is a striking plant, the Purple-banded Wake- 

 robin (Arum Atropurpureum) ; the leaves and spathe are 

 handsomely striped with longitudinal bands of deep purple. 

 You have probably been familiar with the Spotted- Wake- 

 robin (Arum McLCuIatum), which grows in some parts of 

 England. 



C — Oh, yes ! it is abundant in some of the lanes near 

 V/imbome and Blandford ; at school, we used to gather them 

 for the beautiful, crimson, pillar like spike of flowers, sitting 

 in state beneath its canopy ; for which reason, probably, they 



