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Title: Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), b. 1825 Taylor, J. E. (John Ellor), 1837-1895
Subjects: Science Natural history
Publisher: London : Robert Hardwicke
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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le. The young leaves of theHolly are unspined, because the spine comes with theage of the leaf; hence as the topmost leaves are themost juvenile, they are unarmed, while the lower onesare armed. Poets often run off with a popular fallacy,and clothe it in exquisite language. I was amusedlast week by some lines in which our yellow gardencrocus is, because of its golden hue, gifted bythe author with the saffron-producing qualities ofthe Crocus sativus. It would be well if others would follow Mr. New-lyns example in drawing attention to differentpoisonous plants. The deadly Aconite, for instauce,how general it is in cottage gardens, and almost everycottager I have ever spoken to on the subject hasbeen ignorant of its dangerous properties. Thenthere is the Thorn-apple. I actually found someleaves of this most virulent plant amongst a basketof spinach which my gardener had picked, and mycook was going to dress for dinner one day. Helen E. Watnev. 108 HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. (May 1, 1S68.
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Fig. 108. Stag Heeile (Luce//tas cervas). May 1, 1868.) HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 109 THE STAG BEETLE. (Lucanus cervtis.) OUR illustration of the metamorphoses of theStag Beetle is from Professor Blanchardsrecent work on the Metamorphoses of Insects,already noticed in this journal. This large andformidable-looking beetle is well known to residentsin the southern counties. Mr. E. C. Bye writes ofit: This species is not peculiar to the oak, but isfound sometimes on willow—the specimens rearedfrom the latter tree being smaller than the oak-fedexamples. It is, however, a well-known fact thatgreat differences in size are always found in speciesof which the larvse feed on wood; owing to themany variations to which they arc subject, from thegood or bad quality, or too great or too littlemoisture, of their food, and the long period duringwhich they remain in the larval state. Mr. G. R.Waterhouse has recorded the fact of his havingkept a stag beetle alive for some time, which becamecomparat

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