A Catchfly which is not viscid, with the flowers collected into a tuft.
Echium was at first supposed to be the food plant, but it was soon ascertained the larval pabulum was the flowers and seeds of the local catchfly (Silene otites).
It feeds on the leaves as well as the unripe seeds of campion, ragged robin, and catchfly in July, August, and September.
Defn: A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.
We may hire a fresh horse there, perhaps, and let them bring home Catchfly to-morrow.
Catchfly was liberated from the shafts, and another horse took his place--a horse which had toiled all day in the turnip field, and at his best was not remarkable for speed.
The way seemed long, they traversed it so slowly, for Catchfly fell lame as he began to cool; and they had to alight and lead him ere the end.
It was only when Catchfly began to look as if he must drop, and the road got stony, and I saw the gravel pits by the wayside, that I began to fear for our necks and spoke.
Like the night-flowering catchfly this blossom has adapted itself to the night-flying moths; but when either remains open in the morning, bumblebees gladly take the leavings in the deep cup.
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