INDEX. 



395 



Monstrosities, vegetable, 40. 

 Moquin-Tandon's Vegetable Monstrosi- 

 ties, 40. 

 Musa, history of the cultivation of, 344, 



Names for garden-plants discussed, 

 309. 



Names, formation of personal, for 

 plants discussed, 368. 



Names, methods of abbreviation dis- 

 cussed, 376. 



Names of natural orders, 11, 365. 



Names of organs, rules for choosing, 

 296. 



Names of species in combined genera 

 discussed, 49, 382. 



Names, permissible changes in, 377. 



Names, popular, of British plants dis- 

 cussed, 106. 



Names, substantive specific, for plants 

 discussed, 48, 368. 



Names, use of unpublished, 373. 



Natural orders, analogies of, 80. 



Natural orders, names of, 11. 



Natural System of Botany, 1. 



Naudin's Nature of Heredity and 

 Variability in Plants, 212. 



Naudin on the genus Cucurbita, 83. 



Nitrates, influence of, in production of 

 vegetable matter, 100. 



Nitrates, sources of, in soil, 103. 



Nolinece, 280. 



Nomenclator, Agassiz's Zoological, 41. 



Nomenclature, A. De CandoUe's, 358. 



Nomenclature, Bentham's views on, 

 206. 



Nomenclature of fossil plants, 380. 



Nomenclature of organs, 294. 



North Carolina, trees of, 115. 



Nyctaginacece in the Prodromus, 28. 



Nyctotropism explained, 307. 



Oakesia sessilifolia, 280. 



Oaks, A. De Candolle on distribution 



of the, 1.30. 

 Oaks, history and origin traced, 136. 

 Oaks, variations in, 132. 

 Oca, history of cultivation of, 328. 

 Odor in flowers, purpose of, described, 



227. 



(Edogonium, nature of, 91. 



Ordinal names, proper terminations of, 

 discussed, 11, 365. 



Organography discussed, 293. 



Organs, nomenclature of, discussed, 

 294. 



Organs of plants, nomenclature of, dis- 

 cussed, 379. 



Organs, rules for choosing names of, 

 296. 



Origanum vulgar e, Darwin's experi- 

 ments in crossing, 223. 



Orobanche, 21. 



Oxalis crenata, history of cultivation 

 of, 328. 



Oxalis tuberosa, history of cultivation 

 of, 328. 



Papilionaceous plants, fertilization of, 



267. 

 Parkman, F., on the Hybridization of 



LiHes, 238. 

 Parrya macrocarpa, 185. 

 Parthenocissus, 252. 

 Passiflora gracilis, movements of, 173. 

 Passiflora, history of cvdtivation of, 



342. 

 Passiflora incarnata, 343. 

 Peach, origin of the, 329. 

 Pears, history of the cultivation of, 193. 

 Pears, method of producing large, 



described, 191. 

 Pears, number of cultivated species of, 



188. 

 Pears, races of, 192. 

 Pears, stock for, 191. 

 Peraphyllujn, 195. 

 Persea gratissima, history of, 342. 

 Phacelia circinata, 389. 

 Phaseolus lunatus, origin of, .351. 

 Phaseolus vulgaris, history of, 344. 

 Photinia, 195. 

 Phyllotaxy, 76. 

 Physiology of plants, 81. 

 Phytogamy, 241. 



Phytography, A. De Candolle's, 282. 

 Pickenngia, 15. 

 Pilea pumila, 90. 



Pinguicula, glandular hairs of, 209. 

 Pirus, 89, 329. 



