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XIV. 
JUNE 20th. 
Purple-banded Wakerobin. — Buttercup. — Red Clover. — Cedar Bird.— 
Singing Birds. — Night Hawk — its singular manners. — Appearance 
of Forest. — Straightness and Nakedness of Forest Trees. — Process of 
clearing Land. — Ornamental Trees. — Gloom of Forest. — Age of 
Trees. — Tenacity of Life. — Pearl-crescent Fritillary. — Chequered 
Skipper. — Small Copper. — Banded Purple — its Caterpillar and Chry- 
salis. — Caterpillar of Forked ■ — of Orange Comma. — Moths. — Twin- 
eyed Hawkmoth. — Depredations of Mice. — Congregations of But- 
terflies. — Voracity of a Bug. — Other Insects. — Decay of Trees, &c. 
Father. — Will you roam with me through the woods 
for an hour or two, that we may see if nature has any no- 
velties to offer us ? 
Charles. — Very willingly : but it appears to be rather 
a dull time in every department except entomology : insects 
are numerous enough ; but the birds seem to have all de- 
serted us, and the trees manifest no change^ except a greater 
depth and density of foliage. 
F, — Here is a striking plants the Purple-banded Wake- 
robin ( Arum Atropurpureum ) ; the leaves and spathe are 
handsomely striped with longitudinal bands of deep purple. 
You have probably been familiar with the Spotted- Wake- 
robin ( Arum Maculatum J, which grows in some parts of 
England. 
C — Oh_, yes ! it is abundant in some of the lanes near 
Wimborne and Blandford ; at school^, we used to gather them 
for the beautiful, crimson^ pillar -like spike of flowers^ sitting 
in state beneath its canopy ; for which reason^ probably, they 
