80 A NATURE WOOING. 



are driven on by adverse winds in rapid, tumultuous 

 course. 



The large glossy evergreen leaves of the magnolia, 

 M. grandiflora L., are the most handsome foliage of 

 the woods hereabouts. Large numbers of them have 

 recently been used in decorating the office and hall- 

 ways of the great hotel across the river. 



One seeks the sunny places in the woods and fields 

 at noon to-day, as the mercury is only at 50 F. 

 About 75 is the most pleasant in this latitude. 

 Above that is depressing. 



The dragonflies which occur here differ much in 

 habit from those in the north. There they are sel- 

 dom seen except about marshes and borders of 

 streams and ponds. Here they seem to seek the 

 higher, dryer, woodland paths. This morning I have 

 seen hundreds of the medium-sized, brown-winged 

 form, Tramea Carolina L., flitting hither and thither 

 in active flight. Many others of the same species are 

 resting 'on the twigs of oaks and other trees, their 

 bodies standing out at right angles to the support to 

 which they cling. This species occurs most abun- 

 dantly along the sea coast, but ranges inland as far 

 as the Great Lakes. 



I to-day saw the first colony of the young of that 

 giant lubberly grasshopper Dictyophorus reticulatus 

 Thunb. There were about seventy of them on the 

 leaves and stems of a single weed in the old orange 

 orchard. I also secured a magnificent specimen of 



