Note f — BOOK VIII.

And as Trees and Shrubs, so Plants have their peculiar Insects. The White-Butterfly lays its voracious Offspring on Cabbage-Leaves; a very beautiful reddish ocellated one, its no less voracious black Off-spring of an horrid Aspect, on the Leaves of Nettles; as also doth a very beautiful, small, greenish Ichneumon-Fly, in Cases on the Leaves of the same Plant: And to name no more (because it would be endless) the beautiful Ragwort-Moth, whose upper Wings are brown, elegantly spotted with red and underwings edged with brown; these, I say, provide for their golden ring’d Eruce upon the Ragwort-Plant.