AT ORMOND BY THE SEA. 



frosts of the past few winters, I spend most of the 

 time till noon. The hardened, spine clad involucres 

 of last season's sand burs, Cenchrus tribuloides L., 

 are very numerous and give me much trouble by ad- 

 hering to the net every time I sweep it close to the 

 ground. From the dunes along Lake Michigan to the 

 sandy plains of south Florida this weed produces its 

 annual crop of troublesome armored involucres. 

 Linnaeus must have pricked his finger with one of 

 its barbed spines when he called it tribuloides. 'Tis 

 well named, being a tribulation, indeed, to bare- 

 footed boys and butterfly hunters. 



As on yester- 

 day, three or 

 four species of 

 dragonflies are 

 plentiful. Five 

 specimens of one 

 small, dark 

 brown form, Di- 

 placodes minus- 

 cula Rarnb., are 

 captured close to 

 the ground from 

 steins of weeds 



and grass on which they alight. The others fly too 

 high and too swiftly up and down the roadway. 

 What are they hawking for on such a day as this is 



Fig. 6 The Buckeye Butterfly. 



Junonla ccenia Hub. 



(After French.) 



