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will observe the pollen grains consist of one species of 

 flower only. 



Our field flowers, we have thus been told, owe their 

 variety and beauty to the constant visits of insects ; in 

 one instance no less than 118 different insects have been 

 counted visiting one flower ; in another wild flower, out 

 of every hundred insects visiting it no less than 58 

 were bees and 27 butterflies or moths. 



You will understand more about plants when we look 

 into our botanical collection of specimens, all, you will see, 

 are carefully assorted according to their various structures, 

 and from their minuteness fully justifying our title of 

 inhabitants of the invisible world, being truly beyond our 

 mortal vision without the aid of the microscope. But, ere 

 we enter upon this very large field, and before we depart 

 from our chapter on insects, which might have occupied 

 us for many a long evening, for their name is legion, we 

 cannot omit calling your attention to one which is well 

 known, and erroneously considered as belonging to the 

 same family as bees and butterflies in the great and 

 important insect family, namely the spider. But because 

 I shall have much to say to you, and some profitable 

 "lessons" to suggest, as we journey together over 

 Spider-land, it will be better to devote an entire chapter 

 to this interesting subject : so, " lend me your ear," as 

 Shakespeare says, while I unfold to you a few of the 

 mysteries of some of the family which boasts the grand 

 title of "Arachnida," 



