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Show The Butterfly's Gifts. Tho extraordinary gifts of tho butterfly butter-fly raco have always excited tho wonder not only of naturalists but of the most Ignorant observers their allent and unseen un-seen changes; the instinct by which thoy distinguish their favorite plant food, as, for Instance, even among the scarcely differing apcclcs of the complex raco of asters, whero they show themselves, as Prof. Asa Gray-said, "better botanists than many of us;" their skill In depositing deposit-ing their egga unerringly on or near tho Preclso plant on which the forthcoming caterpillars arc fitted to food, although they as butterflies havo never tasted It. Atlantic Monthly. |