The flowers of bulbocodium vernum are a violet-purple color with a white spot on the claw. The flowers…
The chrysalis of the large cabbage butterfly caterpillar is sometimes found directly on the cabbage…
A female large white cabbage butterfly has two large black spots on each upper wing. The body is black…
The skin of black bourjassotte figs is black. The fruit is a deep red. These figs are delicious.
These spores of fungi are species of the genus Agaricus. Most of these species have colorless spores…
The flowers of garrya elliptica are greenish white or yellowish in color. The berries on the shrub are…
The female gipsy moth is larger than the male. The wings are a dingy or yellowish white with darker…
The Gooseberry or Magpie moth is often mistaken for a butterfly. The moth usually appears in the middle…
The front wings are the small ermine moth are white or gray with numerous small black dots. The lower…
The common names of hypericum perforatum are common hypericum and St. John's wort. The flowers are bright…
Iris susiana flowers grow alone of each stem. The flowers are a whitish lilac with dense, fine brown…
Bombyx Neustria, or the lackey moth, lay their eggs on the twigs of various trees. When the larvae emerge…
The antennae if the female leopard moth are thread like. The wings are semi-translucent with thickly…
The larva, or caterpillar, of the leopard moth is whitish with black glossy spots. The caterpillar has…
Lilium concolor pulchelium is a variety of lily. The flowers are bright scarlet with a few faint spots…
Common tiger lily is the common name of lilium tigrinum. The flowers are a bright, deep, orange red.…
The caterpillar of the brown-tail moth is black with warty tubercles. The caterpillar emits tufts of…
Satin moth is the common name of liparis salicis. The caterpillar bears a row of white spots down the…
Lotus jacobaeus flowers are dark purple, almost black. The upper petal is yellowish. The plant grows…
The mammillaria haageana cactus has bright carmine rose flowers. The stem is bullet shaped when young…
The leaves of massangea hieroglyphica are dark green banded with violet black. The markings on the leaves…
The common name of myrtus is myrtle. The ugni variety has white flowers that bloom in May. The fruit…
Nut weevil is the common name of balaninus nucum. The weevil is one third of an inch long with an egg…
Pictured are the beetle of the natural size (a), and enlarged (b), and a pea (c) in which the hole of…
Pictured is a group of young spore bearers of agaricus melleus. The mushrooms can be found growing between…
Black sugar maple is the common name of acer nigrum. The leaves are generally three lobed and five to…
Acrocomia is a genus of American palms. The sclerocarpa species grows between thirty and forty five…
The leaves of Adiantum continuum are twelve to eighteen inches long and grow on stout, black stalks.…
The common name of Alnus glutinous is black alder. The leaves are two to five inches long with five…
Amelanchier alnifolia is a ten foot tall shrub with stout, upright branches. The flowers are rather…
The Amelanchier bartramiana shrub grows up to eight feet tall. The fruit is purplish black and bloomy.
Anemone fulgens flowers are two inches across and vivid scarlet with a black stamen. Several leaves…
The larva of the tussock moth bear several pencils of long black hairs placed at each end. The larva…
Pictured is a black spruce attacked by the dwarf mistletoe, Arceuthobium pusillum. This caused witches'…
The common names of Arum maculatum are lords-and-ladies, cuckoo-pint, and wake robin. The plant usually…
Arundinaria nitida is a variety of bamboo. It grows six to ten feet tall. The stems are slender and…
The numbers represent different plants in this oriental pattern bedding. (1) white geranium, (2) Calendula…
Illustrated are two bouquet themes. The left is a flower theme, the right a foliage theme. The white…
Illustrated is harmony in vase and bouquet. The white circles represent flowers, the black represent…
Illustrated is harmony in vase and bouquet. The white circles represent flowers, the black circles represent…
The stalks and rachis of ceropteris calomelanos are nearly black. The leaves are one to three feet long.
Colocasia antiquorum esculenta has violet leafstalks. The blade is black-green with violet margins.
Coriaria japonica is a shrub grown chiefly for its ornamental fruits. It grows two to three, but sometimes…
Cowpea, China bean, black-eyed pea, and black-eyed bean are all common names of vigna catjang. Botanically…
The common name of ribes floridum is native black currant. In this illustration the fruit is immature.…
Diospyros lotus is a variety of persimmon. The leaves are oblong and grow three to five inches long.…
Tiger lily is the common name of lilium tigrinum. The flowers bloom in August and September. It is native…
Turban lily and European Turk's cap lily are the common names of lilium martagon. The flowers are a…
Little Turk's cap lily is the common name of lilium pomponium. The flower is native to the Alps of southern…
Lilium elegans is native to Japan and blooms in June and early July. The flowers are orange red and…
Sing Kwa is the common name of luffa acutangula. The fruit is strongly ribbed with black seeds. It is…
Spiked loosestrife, purple loosestrife, and black blood are the common names of lythrum salicaria. The…
Illustrated are types of moldboard plows adapted to different kinds of plowing. (1) prairie breaker…
Moonseed is the common name of menispermum canadense. The flowers are greenish white and grow in loose…
The leaves of the native red mulberry are very large. The fruit is deep red or almost black when fully…
Scleroderma vulgare is black within, tough, and inedible. It resembles some smaller lycoperdon externally.
Myrtle is the common name of myrtus communis. It is an evergreen shrub that grows three to ten feet…