138 
Cocoanut, 129. 
Compound flowers, 49. 
Cone-bearing trees, 112. 
enlivening effect of their foliage 
in winter, 116. 
Conifera, 112. 
Convolvulus, 44. 
Cork Oak, 92. 
Corolla, 27. 
Corymb, 29. 
figured, 31. 
Cowthorpe Oak, 97. 
Crawley Elm, 104. 
Crocus, 81. 
Curled Willow, 103. 
Cyme, 29. 
figured, 32. 
Cypress, 118. 
a long-lived tree, 120. 
swamps of the South, 119. 
Cypress-wood, durability of, 119. 
supposed to be the gopher-wood 
of Scripture, 119. 
Daisy, 47, 48. 
a compound flower, 48, 49. 
Michaelmas, 48. 
Date, 129. 
Date-tree, the palm of Scripture, 
135. 
Dog-wood, flowers of, 30. 
Egyptian Water-Lily, 54. 
venerated by the Hindoos, 54. 
Elm, 103, 104, 108. 
Endogenous plants, 13. 
trees, 125. 
Epiphytes, 43. 
European Cypress, 119. 
Evening Primrose, 31. 
Evergreens, 75, 116. 
Exogenous trees, 86. 
Fascicle, 29. 
figured, 30. 
Ferns, 70, 71. 
seed-vessels of, 71. 
Fibrous-rooted plants, use of, 84. 
Filament, 28. 
Fir, 113, 117, 120. 
Flowers, 25, 26. 
abound in mountainous places, 
3. 
common form of, 28. 
different arrangement of, 29. 
of Arctic countries, 73. 
INDEX. 
Flowers of the grasses, 13. 
parts of, described, 27, 28. 
seed-producing organs of, 27. 
various shapes of, 28. 
Flushing Oaks, 93. 
Fly-trap, 82. 
Fontingall Yew, 109. 
Food-plants, their power of repro- 
duction, 14. 
Fronds, 71. 
Fruits, 34. 
Garden 8000 feet above the sea, 74. 
Grass, meaning of the term as used 
in Scripture, 12. 
many varieties of, 12. 
Grasses, abundance of seeds, 14. 
formation of, 13. 
order of, in creation, 11. 
Great Water-Lily, 51. 
Gopher-wood, 119. 
Hemlock, 117. 
Hickory, 100. 
Himalaya Mountains, 
drons of, 75, 76. 
Hindoo paper, 131. 
Hollow Elm at Hampstead,’104. 
Holly-leaved Oak, 92. 
Indian Corn, 17. 
Insect-catching plants, 82. 
Involucre, 30. 
figured, 34. 
Ipomea, 45. 
Jacobean Lily, 56. 
curious process of fertilization, 
56. 
Jara Palm, 131. 
Larch, 118. 
Large trees of California, 113-116. 
Leaves, breathing-organs of plants, 
58 
rhododen- 
of endogenous plants, 13. 
of the fir, 112, 
of the larch, 113. 
of the palm, uses of, 130, 131. 
of the pine, 112. 
of various species of oak, figured, 
varieties of, 35. 
various shapes of, 35, 36. 
Lebanon, cedars of, 121-123. 
Lichens, 70. 
