 ... it is equally remarkable, that, amidst all the varied hues of spring, yellow is the most predominant in our wild and cultured plants. The primrose, cowslip, pilewort, globe-flower, buttercup, cherlock, crocus, all the cabbage tribe, the dandelions,...  British Butterflies - Page 95by James Duncan - 1860 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1829 - 660 pages
...cherlock, crocus, all the cabbage tribe, the dandelions, appear in this dress. The very first butterfly, that will " aloft repair, And sport, and flutter in the fields of air," is the sulphur butterfly (gonepteryx rhamni), which in the bright sunny mornings of March we so often see under the warm hedge,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...cherlock, crocus, all the cabbage tribe, the dandelions, appear in this dress. The very first butterfly, that will " aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air," is the sulphur butterfly (gonepteryx rhamni), which in the bright sunny mornings of March we so often see under the warm hedge,... | |
 | John Leonard Knapp - Electronic books - 1829 - 452 pages
...cherlock, crocus, all the cabbage tribe, the dandelions, appear in this dress. The very first butterfly, that will " aloft repair, And sport, and flutter in the fields of air," is the sulphur butterfly (gonepteryx rhamni), which in the bright sunny mornings of March we so often see under the warm hedge,... | |
 | Botany - 1830 - 634 pages
...our wild and cultured spring flowers, the author of Journ. Nat. observes, "The very first butterfly, that will aloft repair, And sport, and flutter in the fields of air," is the sulphur butterfly, (Gimejitrry.r Rhamui,) which, in the bright sunny mornings of March, we ю often see under the warm... | |
 | John Leonard Knapp - Animals - 1831 - 330 pages
...cherlock, crocus, all the cabbage tribe, the dandelions, appear in this dress. The very first butterfly, that will " aloft repair, And sport, and flutter in the fields of air," is the sulphur butterfly (gonepteryx rhamni), which in the bright sunny mornings of March we so often see under the warm hedge,... | |
 | John Leonard Knapp - Natural history - 1838 - 490 pages
...cherlock, crocus, all the cabbage tribe, the dandelions, appear in this dress. The very first butterfly, that will • aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air, is tlie sulphur butterfly (gonepteryx rhamni), which in the bright sunny mornings of March we so often... | |
 | James Cundall - 1866 - 554 pages
...wing in the earliest days of the year. Mr. Knapp says:- — "The sulphur Butterfly is the very first that will " 'Aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air.' " We fear, however, that the poor insect will have to seek the hedgerow in vain for flowers, and go... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Birds - 1878 - 364 pages
...appear during the first three months of the year. The very first Butterfly, as Knapp tells us, which will ' Aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air,' is the angular-winged Brimsiikworm Moth. stone Butterfly (Papilio rhamnf). This fly frequently survives the... | |
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