INDEX 



Brazil, 309 

 Breadfruit, 249 

 Breaking of meres, 201 

 Bridges of creepers, 319 

 Brigalow scrub, 112 

 Brier, 184 



Britain (prehistoric), 144 

 British agriculture, 16 

 Britons, 150 

 Bromelia, 342 

 Broom, 256 

 Broomrape, 335 

 Brown, Dr. Horace, 18 

 Buds, 294 

 Buffonia, 365 

 Bulbs, 138 

 Burning bush, 115 

 Bushmen, 226 

 Buttercups, 233, 296 

 Butterflies, 192 

 Butterwort, 348 



Cabbage, 23, 277 

 Cacti, 134, 179 

 Calabar bean, 232 

 Caledonian forest, 66 

 Calthrops, 185 

 Camargue, 161 

 Canadian forests, 62 

 Cannibals, 327 

 Canoes, 51 

 Caiions, 176 

 Carbon atom, 22 

 Carbonic acid gas, 16, 21 

 Carboniferous period, 55, 56 

 Carline thistle, 184 

 Cassier, 118 

 Castor oil, 245, 372 

 Catapult fruits, 263 

 Catchfly, 347 

 Cattle, 52 



Cattle poisoning, 238 

 Caustic creeper, 235 

 Cedar, 59 

 Charlock, 275 

 Cherry, 97 

 Chickweed, 100, 346 

 Chicory, 125 

 Chinese botanists, 37 

 Chocolate, 125 

 Cinnamon, 35 

 Clematis, 265 

 Climate (effect of), 108 

 Chmbing plants, 313 

 Clover, 86 



Cloves, 30 



Club-mosses, 55 



Coal period, 55-70 



Coca, 125 



Cocoa, 125 



Cocoanut, 259 



Cockchafer, 292 



Cockspur thorn, 183 



CodUn moth, 295 



Coffee, 123 



Coffee disease, 124 



Colocynth, 137 



Colonizing of lavas, 171 

 ,, of shale, 173 



Colorado desert, 139 



Colour of birds, 81 



„ butterflies, 81 

 „ flowers, 72-4 

 ,, fruits, 240 



Coltsfoot, 18, 86 



Congo, 309 

 Cooke, Dr., 201 

 Coral-root orchid, 329 

 Cotton, 265 



„ grass, 355 

 „ tree, 59 

 Country life, 155 

 Cow tree, 312 

 Cretaceous period, 70 

 Crocus, 19 



Crows and acorns, 256 

 Cucumber, 86 

 Cultivated plants, 269, 273 

 Curare, 228 



Currents and seeds, 255, 259 

 Cypress, 59 



Daffodil, 368 



Dahlia, 265 



Daisy, 218 



DandeHon, 19, 93, 264 



Danewort, 370 



Dariing pea, 237 



Darnel, 234, 367 



Date palm, 141, 251 



Datura, 232 



Deer, 178 



Deodar, 60 / 



Depopulation of country, 154, 155 



Depth of water (plants), 205 



Desert, 132 



Desmids, 206 



Desmoncus, 316 



Destruction of plants, 61-5 



Diatoms, 206 



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