4io 



Index 



Staminate flowers, 77, 287 

 Staminal leaves, 287, 288 

 Starch, making of, 100, 102, 113 

 Starches, 63, 119, 121 

 Starch, grains of : 



barley, 103 



Indian corn, 103 



Indian shot, 103 



rye, 103 



wheat, 103 



timber, 102, 103 

 Stemless lady-slipper, 268 

 Stems of grasses, 188 



of sedges, 188 

 Stephanotis, 207, 227 

 Stigmatic surface, 25, 26 

 Stigmas of forest-trees, 69 



of wind-fertilized flowers, 31 

 Sting of the nettle, 329, 330 

 Stoma, 107, 108 

 Stomata, 106, 107, 108, 109 

 Submerged foliage, 112, 113 

 Succulent leaves, 109 

 Sulphur, 89 

 " Summer-wood," 134 

 Sundew, 300 



Sunshine necessary to starch- 

 making. 100 

 Swamp thistle, 340, 342 

 Sweet-alyssum 371 

 Sweetness of night-flowers, 

 227, 228 



Tannin, 384 



Taraxicum, 37 



Tassles of the poplar, 52 



Taxacese, 270 



Teasel, 323, 325 



Tendril, 113, 244, 245 



Tendril-bearers, 233, 235, 240 



Tendrils, 242, 244 



elasticity of, 245 



flower, 243 



of the grape-vine, 243 



of the Virginia creeper, 244 



revolution of, 243 



strength of, 245 



useless, 245 

 Tennyson quoted, 76 

 Thistle, 326, 345, 349, 352 



in folk-lore, 333, 336 



in folk-medicine, 336 



Thistle, in heraldry, 336 



pasture, 342 



swamp, 340, 342 

 Thistles, 317 

 Thistleton Dyer quoted, 62, 333, 



336, 356, 357 

 Thor, 336 



Thorn, definition of, 325, 326 

 Thorns, 323 



Thread made from nettles, 332 

 Three-ranked arrangement of 



sedge-leaves, 188 

 Thrift of nature, 242 

 Timber, 103 

 Timothy-grass. 168 

 Tissue, new, 91 



of leaves, 89, 90 



waste, 91 



Tobacco-worm, 218 

 Tomato-worm, 218 

 Tracheids, 283, 284 

 Trailing evergreen, 251 



hemlock, 269 

 Transpiration, 106 

 Traps for snaring insects, 33 

 Trap of the dogbane, 306, 314 



of the milk-weed, 310, 311 

 Trap-setting plants, 300 

 Tree-blossoms, 65 

 Trunk of the palmetto, 127, 



130, I3i 



Tubers, 102 



Tube put forth by the pollen- 

 grain, 26, 27 



Tubuliflorae, 353 



Twilight moths, 33 



Ulmus Montana, 380 

 Upas tree, 333 



Veins, 89, 126 



parallel, 123 

 Veinlets, 126 

 Venus fly-trap, 300 

 Vessels, wood, 128 

 Vestiges of grass-petals, 165 

 Vestiges of the prothallus in 



flowers, 295 



Vestiges of atrophied seeds, 83 

 Vine-tips : 



hooked, 237 



revolution of, 237 



