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INDEX 
PANSIES ( Viola tricolor) : Great va- 
riety of color, 46 ; trickery of florists ; 
aniline bath, 47 ; a chemical ex- 
periment ; astonishing color, 48 ; 
ammonia as an agent ; coloring an 
entire plant emerald green, 50 ; 
results from the fumes of sulphur 
matches, 52. 
Passion-flower, 189. 
Passion-vine, 186. 
Perfumed beetle (Osmoderma scabei), 
curious odor of, 133 ; suggesting 
Russia- leather ; home on the 
maple-tree ; sipping the sap ; easily 
startled, 134. 
Pink, 205. 
Plant-louse of the apple-tree, 236. 
Pliny, 64, 114, 116, 252. 
Pollen bearers, 30. 
Polyphemus. See Moths. 
Polyponts, 144. 
Preservation of food by wasps, 256. 
Primrose ash, 73. 
Professor of biology, 70. 
" Professor Wiggler," what a florist's 
window suggested ; the lilac-bush 
his home, 73 ; his characteristics, 
74 ; how he came to be named ; 
bringing him up by hand, 75 ; 
lively capers, 76 ; five changes of 
clothes; voracious feeding, 77; how 
he retains his head-shells, 78 ; dig- 
ging out a home, 79 ; home com- 
pleted; skilful concealment; what 
comes from the cocoon, 81 ; bur- 
rowing habits, 82. 
Puff-balls, 136; its purple cloud, 
136 ; rapid change of substance ; 
its cloud mass of reproductive 
atoms, 137 ; same results from 
mushrooms and toadstools, 138. 
Pungent odors, 132. 
"QUAKER." See Grasshopper. 
" RACER," 85. 
Red Admiral. See Butterflies. 
" Red-hot child of nature," 92, 96. 
Redstart, 176. 
Red-tailed hawk, 152, 153. 
Riddles in flowers, 202 ; curi- 
ous specimens ; botanists and 
philosophers, 204 ; pollen - carry- 
ing, 207 ; galaxy of white or 
blue stars, 208 ; variety of con- 
struction, 209 ; solving the riddle, 
211. 
Riley, C. V., quoted, 254. 
" Robin's pin-cushion," 43. 
Roland for an Oliver, 59. 
Roots, becoming stems and bearing 
leaves, 87. 
Rose garden, 126. 
Roses, blue, 45, 46; green, 187. 
Rosy moth, 85. 
Rowen-field, 116, 218. 
SABBATH sanctuary bouquet, 26. 
Sacred " scarabaeus," emblem of im- 
mortality, 53. 
Sage blossom, its welcome to the 
bee, 221. 
Sand-hornet: Prospecting for game, 
249 ; the capture, 250 ; manner of 
transporting its prey, 251 ; its col- 
or and terrible sting, 252 ; not to 
be trifled with ; its home in the 
sand-bank, 253 ; deposits its egg 
and leaves, 254 ; its mysterious 
poison, 256. 
Scrophularia, figwort, 28. 
Semicolon. See Butterflies. 
