 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, or by the side of some sheltered copse, undulating, and vibrating like the petal...  The Naturalist's Library - Page 102edited by - 1835Full view - About this book
 | 1854 - 1112 pages
...is the Sulphur Butterfly, (Goniapteryx Rhamni,} which, in the bright sunny mornings of March, we BO often see under the warm hedge, or by the side of...sheltered copse, undulating and vibrating like the petal of a primrose in the breeze." This pretty species becomes more numerous ss spring ripens into... | |
 | 1829 - 660 pages
...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...sheltered copse, undulating and vibrating like the petal of a primrose in the breeze. The blossoms of many of pur plants afford for the decoration of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...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...sheltered copse, undulating, and vibrating like the petal of a primrose in the breeze. The blossoms of many of our plants afford for the decoration of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1829 - 552 pages
...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...sheltered copse, undulating, and vibrating like the petal of a primrose in the breeze. The blossoms of many of our plants afford for the decoration of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 860 pages
...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...sheltered copse, undulating and vibrating like the petal of a primrose in the breeze. The blossoms of many of our plants afford for the decoration of... | |
 | John Leonard Knapp - Electronic books - 1829 - 452 pages
...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...or by the side of some sheltered copse, undulating, * Article Reseda, in Encyclopaedia Britannica. and vibrating like the petal of a primrose in the breeze.... | |
 | John Leonard Knapp - Animals - 1831 - 330 pages
...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...sheltered copse, undulating, * and vibrating like the petal of a primrose in the breeze. The blossoms of many of our plants afford for the decoration of... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 1070 pages
...severities of the winter, and may be seen abroad as early as March, ' under the warm hedgerow, or beside some sheltered copse, undulating and vibrating like the petals of a primrose upon the breeze,' as Knapp, in his ' Journal of a Naturalist,' picturesquely observes. But although... | |
 | John Leonard Knapp, Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1853 - 370 pages
...fields of air," is the sulphur butterfly (goneptcryx rhamni)*which in the bright sunny mornings ol' March we so often see under the warm hedge, or by...sheltered copse, undulating, and vibrating like the petal of a primrose in the breeze. The blossoms of many of our plants afford for the decoration of... | |
 | James Duncan - Butterflies - 1860 - 438 pages
...will - aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air, is the sulphur butterfly, which, in the bright sunny mornings of March, we so often see...May and June, the last in autumn. It occurs in great profusion in all the continental conntries of Europe, and often in company with another species so... | |
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