. Eye spy : afield with nature among flowers and animate things . Natural history; Insects; Natural history. VIII LIST OF DESIGNS Page An Impossible and Real Tendril • i86 Grape Tendrils Evolved from Blossoms i88 The Star Cucumber and its Compound Tendrils .... igo The Prank of a Tendril igj Initial. An Impaled " Quaker" ig§ The Haunt of the Grasshopper igy The Birth of the Parasites . 200 The Two-formed Flowers. . 202 Puzzling Forms and Faces .... 20J A. Fertilization of a Flower, as Believed by Grew and Linnaus 206 B. Linncsus's Idea was Wrong . ... . . 206 C. and D. What Sprengel


. Eye spy : afield with nature among flowers and animate things . Natural history; Insects; Natural history. VIII LIST OF DESIGNS Page An Impossible and Real Tendril • i86 Grape Tendrils Evolved from Blossoms i88 The Star Cucumber and its Compound Tendrils .... igo The Prank of a Tendril igj Initial. An Impaled " Quaker" ig§ The Haunt of the Grasshopper igy The Birth of the Parasites . 200 The Two-formed Flowers. . 202 Puzzling Forms and Faces .... 20J A. Fertilization of a Flower, as Believed by Grew and Linnaus 206 B. Linncsus's Idea was Wrong . ... . . 206 C. and D. What Sprengel did not Explain . . 207 I he Way in which the Flower is Fertilized. ... 2io Initial. Clover Leaves ... 21J A Rowen Field .... 2iy A Five-Leaved Specimen ..... 2ig Sleeping Clover. 220 Initial. A Barberry Branch .... . 221 "In Arching Bowers" . . . . ... 22^ Barberry Blossojns, Showing Sepals and Petals Open. Fig. i 226 Barberry Blossoms, Showing the Approach of the Bee. Fig. 2 Initial. A Woolly Flock ........ One of the Flock Magtiified . , . A Winged . . Initial. Woodbine Branch and Sphinx Caterpillar What Happened the Next Day What He Should Have Become. The Mischief-Maker. Initial. Bearing Off the Prey A Section of the Sand-bank I71 the Dungeon ..... 228 230 233 235 23S 241 244 S45 246 252 255. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896. New York : Harper & Brothers


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