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STRANGE DWELLINGS . 
are the well-known ‘ cherry-galls,’ which are made by a little 
insect called Cynips quercus-folii. They are beautifully coloured, 
some being entirely scarlet, while others are white, orange, and 
red, in various gradations, something like the colour of a nearly 
ripe peach, or those of a Newtown pippin. Perhaps they bear 
more resemblance to the apple than to the peach, because their 
BRITISH GALLS. 
Leaf Galls of Oak.. Bedeguar of Rose. Galls of Cynips Kollari. 
Cynips Kollari (slightly magnified). Currant Galls of Oak. 
Oak Apple. 
surface is highly polished and shining, much like that of the 
American apple. 
These galls may be found in profusion upon the oak-leaves, 
and are most plentiful upon pollard oaks, upon the youngest 
