Index. 



241 



Hop, wild, its appearance in September, 

 231. 



Hornbeam, its leaves in January, 36 ; its 

 change of color in August, 228 ; its 

 way of changing color in autumn, 233 



Horse, and water ranunculus, 71 



Horse-chestnut, its leaves in March, 81 ; 

 its young leaves, 117; dislike of paint- 

 ers to it, 152; objections to, 153; in 

 May, 154; its name, 167 



Horse-mint, 227 



House, the writer's, in the Val Ste. 

 Ve"ronique, 8 



House-martins, their nest-building, 145 



Hut, a forester's, 24 



Idyl, nature of the, 185 



Idyllists, their method, 186 ; their cun- 

 ning, 187 



Imitators of pastoral poets, their weak- 

 ness, 190 



Immorality of the ancient poets, 184 



Independence, associated with ploughing, 

 9i 



Iris, the yellow, in March, 76 ; the water, 



149 

 'Ivy, ground, 120 



January, 35 ; an effect in, 38 



Jean Cousin, principle of his glass-paint- 

 ing, 119 



June, rich hi flowers, 212 



Juniper, its change of color in August, 

 228 



Keats, his account of the origin of the 

 Narcissus legend, 83 ; his use of reeds 

 in poetry, 97 



Lafontaine, his motto for the reed, 100 

 Lamartine, his ' Laboureurs,' 195 

 Lamotte, Houdard de, quoted, 193 

 Larch-wood, in early spring, 80 

 Leaf-drawing, 41 

 Leaves, dead, law of their adherence to 



branches, 13 ; dried, their beauty, 35 ; 



of preceding year, 118 

 Le Brun, 193 

 Lichen, 43 

 Lily of the valley, 131, 132 



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Lime-tree, 213 



Locality, instinct of, 13 



Loire, the river, in summer, 219 



Lousewort, 166 



Lungwort, 133 



Lychnis, red, in flower, 150 



Magpies, how they build, 143 



Mallow, 212 



'Mariana,' Tennyson's, quoted, 217 



Marigold, marsh, 121 



Meadow bittercress, 167 



Millet, 195 



Mistletoe, in January, 46 



Mosses, in January, 46 ; minute, 47 



Mountain-ash, 48 



Mullein, the great, in winter, 45 ; in 



April, 120 

 Musset, Alfred de, his ' Chanson de For- 



tunio,' 224 



Names of plants, their utility, 40, 166 



Narcissus, the poet's, 83 ; legend of, 84 



Nature, wild, incompleteness of the mod- 

 ern conception of it, 18 ; coloring of, 

 42 ; not harmonious in spring, 65 ; 

 her coloring, 122 



Nest-building, 142 



Nettles, in April, 120 



Nightingale, the, his wonderful voice, 

 198, 199; his emotional expression, 

 200 



November, landscape in, 7 



Oak, its leafage in January, 36 ; inferior 

 to walnut, 49 ; in March, 81 ; more 

 leafless hi spring than in winter, 114 ; 

 its leaves sometimes golden in May, 

 130 ; its way of changing color in au- 

 tumn, 232 



Observation, minute, artistic danger of, 

 38 



Ophelia, her mention of pansies, 164 



Osier, in March, 72 



Oxen, their use in ploughing, 89 



Oxslip, in 



Painters, their dislike to distinctness hi 



multitude, 153 

 Pansies, their merits and associations, 164 



