Index. 



ILIvUSTRATlONS. 



PLATE PULI,-PAGE PLATES. 



I. Iron-wood Tree {Casziarina eq^dsetifolia) 



II. View of the City of Agaiia, Guam, from Mr. SaiTord's 

 Ranch 



III. Henry E. Baura 



IV. Young Buffalo Carrying Water in Bamboo Vessels , . 

 V. Ipoynea leptophylla 



VI. The Bush Morning- Glory ; its storage-roots, and repro- 

 ductions by root-shoots 



VII. A spike of " beardless " barley and one of the ordinary 

 two-rowed barley, showing also the three spikelets 



of each root and some kernels 



VIII. Fig. I, Flowers of the "beardless" barley seen from 

 the side next the floral axis ; Fig. 2, Subtending 

 ' ' glumes ' ' of flowers of ' ' beardless ' ' barley . . . 



IX. The Agatia River 



X. Rev. Jose Bernardo Palomo y T 



XI. A primeval forest in Guam, showing epiphytal forms . 

 XII. A Vegetable Mimic 



XIII. School children and their teacher. Island of Guam . . 



XIV. View of the Island of Guam from the hill behind Agaiia 

 XV. Experiments in Plant Physiology 



XVI. Street of Agana, Island of Guam, after a hurricane . . 



XVII. The Agana River, showing textile screwpine {Pitheco- 



lobium dulce) and coconut palms 



TEXT FIGURES. 

 Fruit and winged seeds of Casuarina equisetifolia ; seed of En- 



tada scandens ; seed of Miccuna gigantea 



Fig. I, Red Oak {Oiiercus rtibra) ; Fig. 2, Texan Red Oak 



(^Querms Texayid) ; Fig. 3, Pin Oak {Qiiercus palustris) . . 



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