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Index 



East Indian nettle, 329 

 Eel grass, 31 

 Elaborated sap, 395 

 Elasticity of tendrils, 245 

 Elm, 53, 61, 62, 74 

 Elms, 50, 54, 75 

 Embryo-sac, 26 

 Empty glumes, 162 

 English daisy, 347 

 Evanescence of grass flowers, 



173 



Evening lychnis, 225 

 Evening primrose, 213 

 Evening primrose, garden, 213 

 Evening primroses, 228, 230 

 Evergreen woods : 



flowers of, 263 



character of, 268 

 Evolution, 86 

 Exalbuminous, 119 



Fall of the leaf, 364, 365, 366 

 Falling of needle-like leaves, 



274 



Ferns, 246 

 Fern spores, 247 

 Fern spores, germination of, 



249, 250 



Fertilization of the coontre, 295 

 Fibro-vascular bundle, 128, 129 

 Fibro-vascular bundles, open, 



134 



Fibro-vascular bundles of Di- 

 cotyledons, 134 



Fibro-vascular bundles of Mo- 

 nocotyledons, 159 



Fir, 274, 2*82 



Firs, 299 



First-born of flowering plants, 

 270 



First flowers in the world, 156, 

 285 



Flags, cat-tail, 124 



Flag, sweet, 143 



Flax, 332 



Flaxseed, 119 



Flies : 



carrion and dung, 33 

 big, 32 

 smaller, 33 



Floret, 40, 43 



Florets, 39, 43, 44, 45 



Flower-clock, 229, 230 



of De Candolle, 230 



of Linnaeus, 231 

 Flower : 



of death, 353, 355 



of immortality, 354, 355 



perfect, 77 



pistillate, 77 



staminate, 77 



tendrils, 243 

 Flowering fern, 265 

 Flowering glumes, 164, 165 

 Flowering plants, 248 

 Flowerless plants, 249 

 Flowers : 



imperfect, 66 



naked, 66 



of life, 355 



of the evergreen woods. 268 



of the nettle, 330, 331 

 Folding creases of young 



leaves, 56 

 Foliage : 



floating, 112 



submerged, 112, 113 



of parasites, 98 

 Forest-trees, 64 

 Forests of Maine and Canada, 



272 



Formic acid, 329 

 Fraxinus excelsior, 77 

 Fronds, 259 



Fruit as defined in botany, 46 

 Fuchsia, 139 

 Fungi, 99 

 Funkia Japonica, 204 



Garden evening primrose, 214 

 Generative cell, 293, 294 

 Generative cells, of pine pollen, 



294 



Georgia yucca, 212 

 Geranium, rose, 126 

 Germination of fern-spores. 



249, 250 

 Gingko, 270 



spermatozoids of, 296 

 Girdled cone-bearers, 282, 283 

 Girdled maples, 283 

 Girdled oaks, 283 

 Gladiolus, 35 

 Glastonbury white thorn> 375 



