The 'Beggar's Tick 



contrive means of obtaining their nectar without 

 touching the trigger — a skilful operation, it ^ 

 would seem, when we consider that the touch <M^ 

 of a butterfly's tongue is commonly sufficient. ,'- 

 to explode the flower. - - '. %>*- 



The woad-waxen, Genista tincloria, the " , Q-^x 

 identical ''whin" of the English ,. ^,^ • v. ^ 'V 

 downs, now sparingly naturalized . 







STICK-SFEn PLANTS OF 

 THE AUTUMN WOODS 





K\ 



in some sections of New England, 



/^■^ affords, i)erhaps, in the large size of its 



/ flowers and rigid tension, the best illustra- 



^ tion of this peculiar explosive mechanism to 



be found among our flora, and, like the various 



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