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This vignette is intended to represent the magical effects produced in vege- 

 table growth by the punctures of various Gall-Flies. To the right, on the 

 Briar Rose, are three of the moss-like galls termed Rose Bedeguars, each 

 enclosing eggs or larvae of the Producing Fly (Cynips Rosce). The Gall -Fly 

 itself is figured to the left, above ; and the largest and most gaily-coloured 

 insect of the four, also distinguished by a tail -like appendage, is a parasitic 

 Ichneumon ( t'alimone Bedeguaris,) as often as the true Gail-Fly an occupant 

 of the Rose Bedeguars. On the rose-leaves above the moss-like tufts are two 

 other galls, globular and spiny, produced by another Cynips, also figured 

 above. To the left, on the branch of oak, are various fruit-like galls. The 

 largest, full of perforations, is the common Oak-apple, when turned brown 

 after exit, through these holes, of its Gall-Fly inhabitants ( Cynips Qwercws), 

 one of which is represented in the centre of the Vignette. This and the other 

 flies are considerably magnified. On the oak-leaves are several berry-shaped 

 galls, green tinged with red, called leaf or currant galls, and nearly similar to 

 those which hang in bunches from the catkins. Above and below the large 

 Oak-apple, and proceeding from the branch, are two of the artichoke galls of 

 the oak-bud. The excrescence, of somewhat oblong form and variegated 

 colour, attached to a low branch in the centre of the foreground, was drawn 

 from a specimen found amongst many others in Highgate Wood. 



