This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...the low-growing plants, come in contact with the germ of the parasite1. The caterpillar would seem afterwards to have buried itself among the damp vegetable debris, apparently to the depth of an inch and a half; while thus located it germinates, and the parasite grows from it, having the basal half of the lengthened ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...the low-growing plants, come in contact with the germ of the parasite1. The caterpillar would seem afterwards to have buried itself among the damp vegetable debris, apparently to the depth of an inch and a half; while thus located it germinates, and the parasite grows from it, having the basal half of the lengthened stem furnished with short slender roots proceeding from various parts with in that length, --while the apical portion is smooth and without any such appendages, which shows that it was exposed above the surface of the earth. The apex terminates in a small globular head. The parasite grows from the thorax, which is completely covered by the thallus. The body of the insect has minute roots springing from it. The caterpillar which is from the East Indies, and represented in PI. III. f. 32 twice its natural size, is apparently furnished with slender hairs all over its body, and with short fascicles of hairs along each side, as well as with four fascicles of long strong hairs placed two anteriorly and two posteriorly, leading to the supposition that it may belong to the family Liparidce; but further information cannot be given, as the parasite so completely covers-the caterpillar as to obliterate all those minute specific characters which might assist in determining its name. The caterpillars of this family, it may be observed, are usually hatched in April; and consequently they remain in that state until the month of June, when they change to the pupa: from this latter state they do not change to a moth until towards the end of July. The parasitical mould had no doubt commenced as usual in the interior of the caterpillar, and then covered the exterior; after which a series of lengthened filaments grew from the upper surface of the body. It is probabl..
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