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CONTENTS. 
Shot — Sorrehtree — Undulations of Odour — Comfrey““Tree 
Primrose — Banner Pea— -Zinnia — Venus’ Fly-trap — Heat of 
Weather , « . 178 
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Peaches — Melons and Gourds — Calabash— Musk Melon — Water 
Melon — Smell Melon — Prickly Cucumber — Locust-tree— 
Wahoo — Sweet Gum — Sour Gum — Story of Irish Emigrant — 
Cotton in Flower — Adam’s Needle— Bear’s Grass — June Bug 
— Tiger Swallowtail — Eyed Click Beetle — Ringlets — Vanilla 
Fritillary — Snout Butterfly — Skippers— Green Emperor Moth 
— Corn Emperor — Crimson Underwing — Odour of Plant-Bug 
— Parasites on Insects — Chelifer — Strength of Reproductive 
Instinct in Insects — Ephemera— Great Black Locust— Stag 
Beetles— Chequered Bug — Prairie Knoll revisited — Change in 
its attractions — Pink- wing Moth — Predatory Asilus . . 194 
LETTER X. — August 1st 
Florida Coffee — Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly — Black-banded 
Sulphur — Black-edged Sulphur — Rattlesnake — Snake crawling 
up a Wall — Inference of Age from the Battles — A Lizard with 
a new Tail— Swallow-tailed Kite — Mississippi Kite — Ticks — 
Their Adhesiveness — Power of Repletion — Depredations of a 
Bear — Reprisals — Singular Rencontre — Nocturnal* Evolutions 
of Swallows . 212 
LETTER XL — August IMi. 
'Possum Hunting by Night — Preliminaries — The Start — Drama, 
tis Personce — Moonlight and Torch-light — The Melon Patch — 
Moths— Opossums — Racoon— Exploits of Major Scott— ’Pos- 
suming — Figs — Chinquapin — Nest of Yellow Rat — Wood Rat 
—Burning Bush— Dirt Daubers— Their Proceedings— Houses 
built and stored — Instance of Evasion of Labour — Profusion 
of Insects — Drying Peaches — Hawk-moths — Mutilla — Ant-lion 
Flies . 226 
