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EXPLANATION OP PLATE THREE. 
n. and o. Wheat stalks, the sheath broken away, show¬ 
ing the flax seeds in their ordinary situation. 
p. Antenna of the male parasite. 
A. Appearance of a healthy (*) and of a diseased (f) 
shoot of wheat in autumn, the worms lying at 
B. Appearance of a healthy (**) and two diseased 
stalks of wheat; (ff) the stalk broken from being 
weakened by worms; (§§) the lower end of the 
sheath swollen from worms within, and perforated 
by parasites coming from two of those worms. 
