VOL. II. 



CONTENTS. 



QK 



50 



v.o. 



CHAPTER 



X. THE LEAF IN KELATION TO ITS ENVIRONMENT (continued) . 



PAGE 



289 



XI. FLORAL FORMS AND THEIR EELATIONS TO INSECTS 312 



XII. THE WELCOME OF THE FLOWERS 358 



XIII. SOME PLANT MARRIAGES AND THE GUESTS THAT ASSIST AT THE FUNCTION . 422 



XIV. THE PROMISE OF THE PLANT THAT is TO BE . . . . . . . 464 



XV. HIDDEN MARRIAGES ............ 500 



GLOSSARY OF TERMS 574 



INDEX ... ........ 577 



COLOURED PLATES. 



Blood-lipped Oncid (Oncidium hcematochilum) Frontispiece 



Facing page 



Peach (Prunus pcrsica) ............ 289 



321 



353 



385 



417 



449 



481 



, 513 



Garlic (Allium acuminatum) 

 Close-headed Befaria (Befaria coarctata) 

 Variegated Oncid (Oncidium variegatum) 

 Blue Vanda (Vanda ccerulea) . 

 Cervantes' Odontoglot (Odontoglossum cervantesii) 

 Speckled Odontoglot (Odontoglossum ncevium) 

 Toothed Ceanothus (Ceanothus dentatus) 



ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT. 



PAGE 



Buttercups, Section showing 

 receptacle to which the 

 carpels are attached . 322 

 Cabbage, Skunk . . 387 



Cactus, A Prickly Pear . 300 

 Calla, ilarsh . .361, 441 

 Campion, White. . 340, 446 

 Candytuft, Evergreen . 486 



Carrot . . . .332 

 Catasetum tridentatum 408, 409 

 Caterpillar-plant . . 481 

 Chestnut, Horse . . 479 



Section of (JIale Flower). 366 

 - Sweet . . 367, 462 



Chrysanthemum, Annual . 352 

 Clavaria, Crested . . 538 



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