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Thomas County, July 3-11, July 27-30, 1911

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Frank Shoemaker, Narratives, Thomas County, July 3-11, July 27-30, 1911
Title
Thomas County, July 3-11, July 27-30, 1911
Date
July 3-11, July 27-30, 1911
Creator
Frank Shoemaker
Description
Narratives
Identifier
321301-1911-0157.jpg
Transcription
28 … character of this grass, and also the nesting site of a western grasshopper sparrow; the nest, not visible in the photograph, was deeply set in the central clump. – On page 20 is a picture of a pretty little spreading plant (Euphorbia sp.) with minute white flowers, which is very common throughout the sandhills. — The photographs on pages 21 and 22 show the common cone-flower, Ratibida columnaris , [yellow prairie coneflower] with a common plantain, Plantago purshii , [woolly plantain] in the foreground. Note the longicorn beetle ( Typocerus sp .) [insect species] on the central flower in the photograph on page 22; these were abundant, and showed remarkable variety in the elytral [fore wing on insect] markings.
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