Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 496
undings, or in some other wayassisting it to avoid its enemies. We may be surethat Nature did not work out these wonderfuldesigns for nothing. The actual manner in whichthey are produced is interesting. If we lookthrough the microscope at a butterflys wing, wesee that it is covered with small… … ONLY PODS OF THE GARDEN SNAPDRAGON. pattern characteristic of a given kind of butterflyor moth is produced. The last of the nature pictures, which lookslike a collection of skulls in a museum, has noth-ing to do with insects. It represents a few podsof the well-known garden snapdragon {Antirrhi-…
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