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given the name of Piuus nodosa. These 

 knots consist of innumerable httle plates, 

 looking as if all the buds had been cut 

 short, and platted together. In the inside 

 is lodged a great mass of very small ob- 

 long insects, or rather eggs. 



June 17- 

 Althouoh I walked about a sjood deal, 

 and was not inattentive to what came in 

 mj way, I met with nothing peculiarly 

 worthy of notice. On the grass I fre- 

 quently observed that substance like saliva, 

 which the common people call Frog-spittle, 

 and which envelops a little pale flesh-co- 

 loured insect like a small Grasshopper. 

 This insect, though not arrived at maturity, 

 moved in some degree, and showed suffi- 

 cient signs of the family to which it be- 

 longed, though it was not yet old enough 

 to cut capers. I removed the frothy mois- 

 ture from some of these insects, and on re- 

 turning to them in the course of an hour, 

 I found them covered as before; a proof 



