INDEX 



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All numbers refer to pages, heavy tyi)e indicating illustrations. 



mesticated, 430; multiplication 

 of, 12(i; origin of, 126 



Various plant groups, 358 



Varnishes, 288, 290, 294, 296 



Vascular cryptogams, 396; parts, 

 538; plants, 396; system, 539 



Vegeiahilia, Vegetable Kingdom 



Vegetable, ecology, 10; fibers, 223 

 foods, 113; ivory, 275, 276 

 388, 422, 423; morphology, 10 

 parchment, 230; physiology, 10 

 sponge, 232, 238, 240; versus 

 animal foods, 119; wool, 228 



Vegetable Kingdom, 8, 394, 396, 

 561, 562; culminating in seed- 

 plants, 560; evolution of, 466 



Vegetative, cone, 323; organs of 

 crowfoot family, 330; repro- 

 duction, 510, 560; system, 

 322 



Vegeto-animal organisms, 573 



Vehicles, 244; for pigments, 295 



Veins, 337 



Veinlets, 337 



VenatioUj 337 



Ventral placenta, 346; suture, 351 



Veratrum vivide, Indian Poke 



Verhenacece, Verbena Family 



Verbena Family, 401 



Vernation, 349; crozier-like, 537 



Vertical hypha, 496, 497 



Verticil, 342 



Vessels, 243, 538, 540; in wood, 252 



Vestiges, 436 



Vestigial characters, 452 



Vine, 333 



Vine-bower Clematis, 336, 328-356 



Vinegar ferment, 155 



Violacece, Violet Family 



Violales, Violet Order 



Violet Family, 400 



Violet Order, 400 



Violins, 245, 270 



Virgin cork, 278, 279 



Virginia Tobacco, 184 



Viscum album, Mistletoe 



VitacecB, Grape Family 



Vital processes, imitations of, 563, 

 564 



Vitis spp., Grapes 



Volatile oil reservoirs, 359, 360 



Volatile oils, 128, 159, 160, 170, 



177, 295, 296, 297; jxjisonous, 



177 

 Volition in plants and animals, 464 

 Vries, Hugo de, 457 

 Vulcanization, 284 



Wagons, 256, 259, 260, 263 

 Wallace, Alfred Russel, 446 

 Walnut, 35, 39, 120, 124, 376, 414, 



415; black, 260; English, 296; 



kernel, 114; white, 261; wood, 



256, 260 

 Walnut Family, 376, 398: black 



walnut, 260; butternut, 40; 



hickory, 41; pecan, 40; walnut, 



39 

 Walnut Order, 376, 398, 414, 415 

 Wall-stain Alga, 476, 477, 504 

 Wall-stain Family: wall-stain alga, 



477 

 Waste products, 573 

 Water, Hemlock, 193, 370, 412, 



413; in foods, 114; in grains, 30 

 Water-bottles, 284 

 Water-craft, 243 

 Watercress, 55, 70, 71, 362, 406, 



407 

 Water-lily Family, 398 

 Watermelon, 88, 96, 121, 124, 383, 



418, 419; pulp, 114 

 Water-mold, 498 

 Water-mold Family: water-mold, 



498 

 Water-mold Fungi, 499 

 Waterproof, coverings, 284; gar- 

 ments, 283, 284; material, 



287 

 Water-supply, effect of forests on, 



304 

 Water-vessels, 282 

 Wax, 303 

 Wax-beans, 85 

 Weapons, 245 

 Weaving, 222, 223 

 Webbing, 223, 230 

 Wedge-leaf, 299 

 Weeds, 303 

 Wearing apparel, 223 

 Well-endowed offspring, 510 

 Wet cooperage, 243, 257 

 WTieat, 11, 15, 19, 20, 28, 120, 



122, 12-1. 126, 159, 235, 387, 



