INDEX 
609 
All numbers refer to pages, heavy type indicating illustrations. 
mesticated, 430; multiplication 
of, 126; origin of, 126 
Various plant groups, 358 
Varnishes, 288, 290, 294, 296 
Vascular eryptogams, 396; parts, 
538; plants, 396; system, 539 
Vegetabilia, Vegetable Kingdom 
Vegetable, ecology, 10; fibers, 223; 
foods, 113; ivory, 275, 276; 
388, 422, 423; morphology, 10; 
parchment, 230; physiology, 10; 
sponge, 232, 238, 240; versus 
animal foods, 119; wool, 228 
Vegetable Kingdom, 8, 394, 396, 
561, 562; culminating in seed- 
plants, 560; evolution of, 466 
Vegetative, cone, 323; organs of 
crowfoot family, 330; . repro- 
duction, 510, 560; system, 
322 
Vegeto-animal organisms, 573 
Vehicles, 244; for pigments, 295 
Veins, 337 
Veinlets, 337 
Venation, 337 
Ventral placenta, 346; suture, 351 
Veratrum vivide, Indian Poke 
Verbenacee, Verbena Family 
Verbena Family, 401 
Vernation, 349; crozier-like, 537 
Vertical hypha, 496, 497 
Verticil, 342 © 
Vessels, 243, 538, 540; in wood, 252 
Vestiges, 436 
Vestigial characters, 452 
Vine, 333 
Vine-bower Clematis, 336, 328-356 
Vinegar ferment, 155 
Violacee, Violet ¥F amily 
Violales, Violet Order 
Violet Family, 400 
Violet Order, 400 
Violins, 245, 270 
Virgin cork, 278, 279 
Virginia Tobacco, 184 
Viscum album, Mistletoe 
Vitacee, Grape Family 
gy ai aa setae of, 563, 
Vitis spp., Grapes 
Volatile oil reservoirs, 359, 360 
Volatile oils, 128, 159, 160, 170, 
ae 295, 296, 297; poisonous, 
Volition in plants and animals, 464 
Vries, Hugo de, 457 
Vulcanization, 284 
Wagons, 256, 259, 260, 263 
W allace, Alfred Russel, 446 
Walnut, 35, 39, 120, 124, 376, 414, 
415; black, 260; English, 296: 
kernel, 114; white, 261; wood, 
256, 260 
Walnut Family, 376, 398: black 
walnut, 260; butternut, 40; 
hickory, 41; pecan, 40; walnut, 
Walnut Order, 376, 398, 414, 415 
Wall-stain Alga, 476, 477, 504 
Wall-stain Family: wall-stain alga, 
477 
Waste products, 573 
Water, Hemlock, 193, 370, 412, 
413; in foods, 114; in grains, 30 
Water-bottles, 284 
Water-craft, 243 
Watercress, 55, 70, 71, 362, 406, 
407 
Water-lily Family, 398 
Watermelon, 88, 96, 121, 124, 383, 
418, 419; pulp, 114 
Water-mold, 498 
Water-mold Family: water-mold, 
498 
Water-mold Fungi, 499 
Waterproof, coverings, 284; gar- 
ments, 283, 284; material, 
287 
_ Water-supply, effect of forests on, 
304 
Water-vessels, 282 
Wax, 303 
Wax-beans, 85 
Weapons, 245 
Weaving, 222, 223 
Webbing, 223, 230 
Wedge-leaf, 299 
Weeds, 303 
Wearing apparel, 223 
Well-endowed offspring, 510 
Wet cooperage, 243, 257 
Wheat, 11, 15, 19, 20, 28, 120, 
122, 124, 126, 159, 235, 387, 
