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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 108

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st fungusmarked within by lines. In the bottom of thecup are the whitish, seed-shaped particles knownas sporangia, or peridiola. The sporangia beingborne in a cup-like receptacle, known as the perid-ium, give it the appropriate name of a birds-nestfungus. —Stewart H. Burn ham. FLIGHT OF BUTTERFLIES… … THE CORNUCOPIA-SHAPED FUNGUS. striate birds-nest fungus. It is an interestinglittle plant and quite widely distributed, not only ONE OF THE LIGHT YELLOW BUTTERFLIES. attracted our attention, and so I am writing to you to knowif you can help us in the matter. Vast numbers of yellow butterflies…

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