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INDEX 
All numbers refer to pages, heavy type indicating illustrations. 
cucumber, 82, 83; hubbard 
squash, 81; long white squash, 
79; muskmelon, 95; pumpkin, 
76, 77, 78; scallop squash, 80; 
summer crook-neck squash, 79; 
turban squash, 81; vegetable 
sponge, 240; watermelon, 96; 
winter crook-neck squash, 81, 
82 
Gourd Order, 401 
Grains (see also Cereals) 11, 12; 
earliest use, 20; in ancient times, 
leg 
Gramina, Grasses 
Graminales, Grass Order 
Graminee, Grass Family 
Grape, European, 88, 121, 124; 
northern fox, 88, 93, 125; pulp, 
114; sugar, 31 
Grape Desmid, 477, 479 
Grape Family, 399: grapes, 93 
Grape-fern, 532, 533 
Grapes, 88, 93, 121, 157 
Grasses, 11, 311 
Grass Family, 387, 397, 422, 423: 
bamboo, 239; barley, common, 
21; barley, six-rowed, 22; Barley, 
two-rowed, 22; broom-corn, 236; 
maize, 23, 24; oat, 12, 13, 14; 
rice, 16, 17; rye, 18; sugar-— 
cane, 106; wheat, 19, 20 
Grass Order, 388, 397, 422, 423 
Gravitation and evolution, 441 
Greek origin of terms, 313 
Green Alge, 476, 508 
Growing-points, 254 
Growth, 561, 572; a slow behavior, 
442 
Guitars, 245, 270 
Gum, 32, 287 
Gum arabic, 163, 164 
Gum Arabic Tree, 163, 163, 366, 
408, 409 
Gum-resins, 287 
Gum tragacanth, 164 
Guncotton, 224, 228 
Gunny bagging, 223 
Gunpowder, 300 
Gun-stocks, 261, 245 
Gutta-percha, 280, 285 
Gymnosperme, Naked-seed Class 
Gymnospermous gynoecium, 392 
Gymnosperms, 397, 550 
Gyneecium, 346; angiospermous, 
392; gymnospermous, 392; 
naked-seeded, 392 
Habit of plant, 359 
' Habits, 572 
Hematein, 292 
Hematoxylin, 292 
Hematoxylon campecheanum, Log- 
wood-tree 
Hair-like outgrowths, 538 
Half-inferior ovary, 350 
Ha = melidaceee, Witch-hazel Fam- 
ily 
Hamamelis virginica, Witch-hazel 
Hames, 244 
Hammocks, 223 
Hampers, 223 
Handles, 245, 280, 284 
irr pine, 270; rubber, 284; soap, 
96 
Harmful plants, 302 
Harness, 244, 259, 260 
Hashish, 181 
Hat linings, 280 
Hats, 223, 238; chip, 241; straw, 
235 
Haustorium, 499 
Hay Bacillus, 492 
Hazel, 373, 412, 413 
Hazelnut, 36 
Head, 373; of grain, 11 
Heart-wood, 246 
Heath Family, 378, 401, 416, 417: 
mountain laurel, 202; sheep 
laurel, 202; wintergreen, 148 
Heath Order, 379, 401, 416, 417 
‘Heating, 297 
Helianthus tuberosus, 
Artichoke 
Heliopsis scabra, Oxeye 
Helleborus niger, Christmas Rose 
Jerusalem 
_ Helminthocladiacee, Thread-weed 
Family ; 
Hemlock, 273, 294, 392, 426, 427; 
poison, 194, 195, 209, 370; water, 
193, 370; wood, 271 
Hemp, 224, 230 
Hemp, Indian, 193 
Hemp, Manila, 232, 233 
Hepatice, Liverworts 
