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Title: The naturalist in Australia
Identifier: cu31924102032772 (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Kent, W. Saville (William Saville), d. 1908
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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VEGETABLE VAGARIES. 279 that might scarcely be suspected to be capable of practical demon- stration in the case of a leaf gall. A very interesting verification of the adage, however, is by our Mangrove " Camelia." On the button- hole " example with three di- examinmg single verging normal
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leaves in the photograph reproduced, three hemispherical ele- vations may be seen on the edge of one of the petal-like sub-divisions which show white against the dark background of the left-hand leaf. A fom'th is also visible more to the right. It might be imagined from their smooth spheroidal contour that they were adherent drops of water. In place of this they are, however, the product of a second species of gall-insect which has inoculated with its ovipositor the leaves already metamorphosed by its predecessor. A vegetable freak that will be tolerably familiar to all who have visited the remote Nor' West is depicted in the accompanying figure. It portrays a l^ranchlet with attached blossoms of a member of the pea tribe, CrotuJana Cimninghami, whose flowers bear a most grotesque resemblance to little green brown-striped birds. The bush pro- ducino- them averages a height of from three to four nmD-rEA, roebuck bay, w.a. or five feet, and is particularly abundant on the sand hills close to the sea-shore in the vicinity of Broome, Roebuck Bay, Western Australia. One such bush is in fact included in the foreground of the Chapter-heading illustration of Broome Creek reproduced on

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  • booksubject:Natural_history
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