The Vredenrick Hyacinth, and Lesser Plantain.
Hyacinthus Belgicus Vredenrick dictus. Plantago minor. I. B.
L. 1. Ch. 1.
XVI.
Cl. 3. S. A. 16.
The MOTHER of PEARL MOTH. Nettles are the Food of the Caterpillar, within the Leaves of which (folded together) it lives, and feeds till the Beginning of June; when it puts on the Chrysalis Form wrapt up within a Leaf, whose Edges are fastened by a Spinning: Fourteen Days after the Moth appears, and may be taken, very commonly, in an Evening, amongst Nettles.
See Albin, P. 73. Rosel, Cl. 4. Tab. 4.
L. I. ch. I.
Cl. 3. S. A. 16.