Without the slightest hesitation it accepts the dry pea, the bean, the vetch, the tare, and the chick-pea; it goes from one to the other, always satisfied; its offspring live and prosper in all these seeds as well as in the haricot.

Only the lentil is refused, perhaps on account of its insufficient volume.

The American weevil is a formidable experimentalist.
The peril would be much greater did the insect pass from leguminous seeds to cereals, as at first I feared it might.

But it does not do so; imprisoned in my bottles together with a handful of wheat, barley, rice, or maize, the Bruchus invariably perished and left no offspring.

The result was the same with oleaginous seeds: such as castor-oil and sunflower.