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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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mi-sheath. Theextremity of this ovipositor is channelled with lateral teeth, with whicli the insect enlarges the slits 588 INSECTA. made in various vogetaliles in order to deposit its eggs; the fluid accumulating in the wounded part ofthe plant forms excrescences or tumours, which have been termed galls ornut-galls, the latter of whichis employed with a solution of green vitriol, or sulpliate of iron, in producing a black dye. The form and solidity of these galls vary according to the nature of the parts of the [ilants which have been attacked, as the leaves, petioles,huds, bark, roots. Many are spherical, andresemble fruits, such as gall-apples, &c.; othersare hairy, as the bedeguar of the rose; othersresemble small artichokes, fungi, &c. The eggsijiclosed in these galls increase in size and con-sistence. They give buth to small Iarva3destitute of feet, but furnished with tubercles tosupply their stead ; sometimes they live singly,and sometimes in societies. [ I have obtained
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Fig. 003.—0r.k gBll.npj.Ie Hud Cyiiipi qi more than eleven hundred gall-flies from a single gall, found at the root of an oak]. They devour the inte-rior without stopping its growth, and remain five or six months in that state. Some undergo their changeswithin the galls, but others quit them in order to descend into the earth. The small round holesobserved in the sides of the galls, show that the insect has made its escape: various insects of thefollowing family are also found within, but these have taken the place of the real inhabitants, havingdestroyed them in the same manner as the Ichneumons. An insect [considered to belong to this family] deposits its eggs in the seeds of the most forwardwild figs in the Levant. The modern Greeks, following a custom handed down to them by theirforefathers, fasten several of these fruits, amongst the later figs, the insects escaping from which,covered with the fecundating dust, make their way into the eye of the fruit of the latter, and thus pr
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