CONTENTS. 
Plants. — Sensitive-plant. —“ How-d’-ye-do”-plant.— The Fly- 
trap. — The Common Berberry.— The Dancing-plant.— Have 
Plants instinct ?—Singular action of the Screw-pine.—Remark- 
able anecdote of a Tree.—Effect of Poisons on Plants.—Mr. 
Ward’s miniature Conservatories.—Temperature of Plants.— 
Heat observed in Flowers.—Cuckoo-pint.—Cause of Heat. —Lu- 
minosity of Plants.—Fungi.—Structure of a Flower.—Pollen.— 
The Date-famine.—The Apple-feast—The Fruit—Ripening of 
—Rotting of—Preservation of.— Events of Autumn in the Tree. 
—Bread from Bark.—Sago. 
CHAPTER IV. 
THE OLD AGE OF THE TREE. 
Aspect of Old Age.—Hollow of the Trunk: explanation of it. 
—Strength even though hollow.—Age of the Tree.—Difference 
between Exogens and Endogens.—Extreme Old Age of some 
Trees. —Banquet-chamber in a Plane-tree.—The great Lime-tree 
of Neustadt.—Immense Dining-table.—Chestnut of the Hundred 
Horses.—Old Yew-trees.—The Fortingal Yew.—The Baobab.— 
Cedars of JLebanon.—The Sycamore.— Great Cypress near 
Oaxaca. — Immense Locust-trees. —Dragon-tree of Teneriffe. 
—Life of the Braburn Yew-tree.—The Cubbeer burr.—Giant 
Sycamores in America.—One turned into a Shop.—Fruit in 
old age. 
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