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some animal, with eye-holes and nasal bones, 

 also a little like in profile to a prawn's head. 

 When empty, these dry heads form the most 

 tempting harbours of refuge to small insects, 



Seed-case of Nigella Damascena. 



one or two of which crawled forth from the 

 specimen I have drawn for you. Nigella, or 

 "love in a mist," has a seed-pod reminding 

 us of Albert Durer's art, weird and grotesque 

 in the highest degree. 



