462 



FREAKS OF PLANT LIFE. 



Ferula of ihe ancients, 417 

 Ficus repens, 21/ 

 Floating imitators, 325 

 Floral clock, 260 

 Flowers of History, 446 

 Flower of the Holy Ghost, 42S 

 Flowers of willow-herb, 234 

 Forget-me-not, 450 

 Fumaria officinalis, 203 

 Funaria hygrometrica, 2SS 



Gahma xanthophylla, 30G 



Giants, 345 



Gyration of plants, 150 



IIamamelis virginica, 294 

 Hand-plant of Mexico, 273 

 Ilarpagophylum leptocarpum, 



302 

 Heat and germination, 372 

 Heat in fungi, 381 

 Heliotropes or sunflowers, 1 70 

 Helleborus niger, 144 

 Hunmlus lupulus, 1S7 

 Hygienic plantations, 8 

 Hygroscopism, 275 



Imitating samarrc, 332 

 Indian fig or banyan, 350 

 Introduction, i 

 Iresine lierbstii, 229 

 Irish shamrock, 451 



Large leaved palms, 356 

 Legend of the cedar, 419 

 Lilium giganteum, 364 

 Lily of France, 457 

 Locomotive Lorantluis, 319 

 Lotos of the Nile, 407 

 Lotos-cater?, 459 

 Luminosity, 383 

 Luminous agarics, 395 

 Luminous mycelium, 391 

 Lupinus 1 ulcus, 250 

 Lycopodium and Azorella, 327 



I^Iacrocystis pyrifera, 36S 

 Mahogany tree, 292 

 Mandrake, 439 

 Marigold and luminous flowers, 



384 

 Martynia diandra, 302 

 Masdevallia, 271 

 Medicago echinus, 437 

 Megaclinium bnfo, 236 

 Mesembryanthemum trlpolium, 



282 

 Meteoric flowers, 259 

 Mimicry, 321 

 INIimicr)' in fungi, 339 

 Mimosa pudica, 221 

 Mirabilis jalapa, 265 

 Mistletoe, 43S 

 Tklomordica elaterium, 294 

 Monkey-pots, 311 

 Mystic plants, 401 



Napoleonic violet, 457 



Narcissus. 415 



Nelumbium speciosum, 30S 



Nepenthes ampuUacea, loG 

 ,, bicalcarata, 105 



,, Chelsoni, 110 



„ distillatoria, 109 



,, Rafflesiana, 106 



OiNOTHKRA biennis, 265 

 Oncidium zebrinum, 269 

 Oxalis acetosella, 1S3, 243 

 Oxalis sensitiva, 225 



Pachystoma Thomsoni, 269 

 Parachute of Tragopogon, 296 

 Parnassia palustris, 233 

 Passiflora edulis, 215 



,, gracilis, 207 

 l^ission flower, 430 

 Pedalium murex, 299 

 Pentaclethra macrophylia, 2S5 

 Phalaris canariensis, 176 

 Phascolus vulgaris, 25 1 

 Philodondron, 377 

 Phylelephas macrocarpa, 379 



