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VIGNETTES FROM NATURE. 



lychnis flowering this week would therefore 

 find its life thrown away, with no friendly 

 insect at hand to help it in setting its precious 

 seeds. Thus all those which blossomed too 

 early have been slowly weeded out, and only 

 the late-flowering individuals have at last 

 been left to perpetuate their kind. 



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