Excerpt from British Plant-Galls: A Classified Textbook of CecidologyIt is said that Dr. Martin Lister (1638 the physician-in-ordinary to Queen Anne, was the first to Observe that certain insects are always associated with certain galls. He found gall insects on the Plum, Cherry, Vine, etc., and alluded to them as the patellae of these trees.In 1671 he discovered that from some a permanent dye of a carnation-red colour could be Obtained by mix...
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