ILLUSTRATIONS 



XIX 



Tail-piece 145 



Club-mosses 146^ 



Explosive Spores of Club-moss . . 148 

 The Rocket's Red Glare .... 149 

 Seed Tramps (Bidens) . . . .150 

 Stick-seed Plants in the Woods . .152 



Too familiar Seeds 154 



A Landscape Note 155 



The broken " Spider Nest ". . . 157 

 Web of the Yellow Argiope Spi- 

 der 158 



Mud-wasp Nests in Garret . . .159 



The Carnivorous Fly 163 



A Sketching Nook 164 



The Wild Bean Vine 166 



Wild Bean Pods, from Above and 



Below Ground 167 



The Petal-nest of the Hunter's But- 

 terfly 169 



Winged Seeds Cat-tail and This- 

 tle 171 



Ballooning Seeds 173 



Seed-tufts of the Groundsel-tree . 174 

 The Fairy Ring Mushroom . . .178 

 A Mimic Bumblebee (Laphria fly) . 181 



A Country Road 182 



The Brown Wasp 183 



Nest of the Polifctes 184 



Wasp Drones and Neuters on Gold- 

 en-rod 185 



Meadow Landscape 186 



The Chestnut-burr Fungus . . . 188 



Fairy Parasols 189 



The Chrysalis Fungus . . . .190 

 A Chinese Fungus Bundle . ... 191 



Autumn Landscape 193 



~T~The Tree-toad (ffyla versicolor) . 195 

 The Burdock as a Bird-trap . . . 197 

 Parasitic Cocoons on Grass-stem . 199 



The Ichneumon Fly and its Victim 200 



Tail-piece 201 



Witch-hazel Catapults . . . .203 



Jack in the Box 204 



Violet Pod expelling Seeds . . . 205 

 Handleaf Violet ( Viola cucullata) . 206 

 The Wijlow-cone Gall . . . .207 

 The Blackberry-stem Gall ... 209 

 The Frost-weed. Flower and Au- 

 tumn Crystal 210 



November Birds Snow - bunting 



and Kinglet 214 



Paddle-seeds of Ash . . . . 216 



Birch and Canoe 217 



Birch-leaf and Arrow-head . . .218 



Bird-nest Remnants 219 



A Vireo's Nest 220 



The " Preacher's " Text .... 222 

 The Snake-skin in the Grass . .225 



Witch-hazel Blossoms 226 



Dandelion ........ 228 



Chickweed 229 



A Mouse Nest on Smilax Spray . 230 



Feathers for the Nest 231 



A Winter Snuggery 232 



Mouse-work 233 



Ichneunvon Flies (Thalessa Itina- 



tor) 235 



The Fly on the Wing 236 



The Pigeon Tremex ( Tremex co- 



lumlid) 237 



A Pair of Pincers 239 



Winter Rosette of the Evening 



-Primrose 240 



The Rosette of the Moth Mullein . 241 

 Pepper-grass and English Plantain 



Rosettes 242 



The Thistle Rosette 243 



A Mouse Race 247 



