Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 2 [February 1902]

FIRE-FLIES.

Reading edition

The Day, disrobing for her rest, Delayed to lift the twilight bars; And o’er them, from the golden West, Wandered this troop of truant stars. —Cora A. Matson Dolson, in Lippincott’s Magazine.

Illustration from Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 2 [February 1902] Illustrated by Color Photography

SUGAR CANE. (Saccharum officinarum.) FROM KŒHLER’S MEDICINAL-PFLANZEN.

Description of plate: A, plant much reduced; B, stem portion with leaf; C, inflorescence; 1-6, parts of flower.