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Gardeners think it a troublesome weed; but the birds love its seed; canary birds delight in it; and each plant of the Ribgrass may grow many thousands of seeds in a summer. How many? Let us see! Take a seed-stalk of the Plantain and you will find it thickly set with little cups, as in the drawing. Open one of these cups, and you find in it five seeds.
If you live in the country or in a small town, you will not have to go many steps, in summer time, before you find the little plant known as Ribgrass, Plantain, or Whiteman's-foot. If you live in a big city, you may find it in any grassy place, but will surely see it, as soon as you reach the suburbs.
Dimly now I remembered, and in a few hours, learned, as I had feared, that I had not captured a young angel or even a fairy it was nothing but a Humming-bird Moth, a beautiful insect common in some regions, scarce in some, such as mine but perfectly well known to men of science and never afterward forgotten by any of that eager schoolboy group. Ribgrass or Whiteman's-Foot
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