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mon or white lily, but some other representa- 

 tive of the same family — Turk's cap lily, 

 orange lily, scarlet Martagon, lancifoliate 

 lily, tiger-spotted lily, golden lily — hailing 

 from the Alps or the Pyrenees, or brought 

 from China or Japan. Relying on the 

 Crioceris, who is an expert judge of exotic 

 as well as of native Liliaceae, you may name 

 as a lily the plant with which you are un- 

 acquainted and trust the word of this singu- 

 lar botanical master. Whether the flower 

 be red, yellow, ruddy-brown or sown with 

 crimson spots, characteristics so unlike the 

 immaculate whiteness of the familiar flower, 

 do not hesitate, adopt the name dictated by 

 the Beetle. Where man is liable to mistake 

 the insect is never mistaken. 



This insect botany, a cause of such grie- 

 vous tribulations, has always impressed the 

 worker in the fields, who, for all that, is a 

 very indifferent observer. The man who was 

 the first to see his cabbage-plot devastated 

 by caterpillars made the acquaintance of the 

 Pieris. Science completed the process, in its 

 desire to serve a useful purpose or merely 

 to seek truth for truth's sake; and to-day 

 the relations between the insect and the plant 

 form a collection of records as important 

 from the philosophical as from the practical, 

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