INDEX 
605 
All numbers refer to pages, heavy type indicating illustrations. 
Shepherd’s Purse, 556 
Shield-lichen Family: 
moss, 169 , 
Shingles, 270 
Shipbuilding, 256, 270 
Ships, 259 
Ships’ knees, 270 
Shoe-lasts, 263 
Shoemaker’s wax, 288 
Shoe-pegs, 245, 263 
Shoe-soles, 287 
Shoes, 282; wooden, 263 
Shoot, 323 
Shoot-segment, 323 
ae kinds of: runners, 92; spur, 
27 
Showbill type, 263 
Showy Ladies’ Slipper, 220 
Shrub, 36, 306, 333 
Siamese Gamboge-tree, 290, 291 
Sigillaria, 547 
Sigillaria, Giant Club-mosses 
Silica in epidermis, 542; in grains, 
31 
Silique, 363 
Silk, artificial, 224, 228; of maize, 
24 
Iceland 
Silk-cotton Family: cocoa, 107, 
108; Sterculia Family, 399 
Silkworm food, 303 
Simple inflorescence, 352; leaves, 
339, 342; pistil, 347 - 
Sinapis alba, White Mustard 
Sinker, 211 
Size of plants, enormous, 575 
Skiffs, 260 
Slippery Elm, 165 
Smokeless fuel, 300, 301; powder, 
224 | 
Smooth Sago Palm, 109 
Snow-on-the-mountain, 203, 207, 
pa chy 
Snuff, 185 
Soap, yellow, 288 
Soap-berry Order, 399 
Soaps, 288, 295, 296 
Socrates, poisoning of, 194 
Soda in grains, 31 
Soda water mixtures, 150 
Soft pine, 270; soap, 296 
Soil bacteria, 494 
Soil-binders, 303 
Soil-building by lichens, 506 
Soil-makers, 304 
Solanacee, Nightshade Family 
Solanum  Dulcamara,  Bitter- 
sweet 
Lycopersicum, Tomato 
Melongena, Egg Plant 
nigrum, Black Nightshade 
tuberosum, White Potato 
Solar system, 464 
Soldering flux, 288 
Soles, 280 
Solid bulb, 336 
Solitary flowers, 345, 352 
Solvents, 296 
Soredium, 506, 508 
Sorghums, 236 
Sorus, 179 
Sounding-boards, 270 
Sour Cherry, 90 
Southern Moss, 232, 234 
Souvenirs, 268 
Spadix, 388 
Spars, 243, 270 
Spathe, 388 
Spathiflore, Arum Order 
Speaking tubes, 287 
Spearmint, 137, 139, 170, 177, 338; 
oil, 297 
Special creation, 429 
Species, 4, 428; as units of, classi- 
fication, 431; destruction of 432; 
fixity of, 429, 430; limits of, 431; 
origin of, 441 
Spermagone, 505 
Spermatophyta, 8 
Spermatophyta, Seed-plant Divi- 
sion 
_Spermatophytes, 393, 394, 396, 
397 
Spermatozoid, 515, 517, 527 
Sphagnacee, Peat-moss Family 
Sphagnum spp. Peat Moss 
Sphenophyllum cuneifolium, 
Wedge-leaf 
Sphenopteris, Climbing-ferns 
Spicate inflorescence, 373 
Spices, 128, 302; danger of, 130, 
133; history of, 137 - 
Spiderwort Family, 397- 
Spike, 373 
Spikelet, 13 
