INDEX 



241 



Rainy day, 223-230. 

 Roses, wild, 16, 17. 

 Roundness of stones explained by Geo- 

 logist, 233. 

 Russula emetica, 108 



Salamander, 109. 



Saxifrage, 215, 227. 



Sedges, 185. 



Shadbush, 14, 15. 



Silk, spider's, 92. 



Skating, 43. 



Skating in July, 113. 



Skunk cabbage, 14, 203, 208-212, 



214. 



Snail-like caddice-cases, 35. 

 Solanum Dulcamara, IT. 

 Spider, ballooning, 188. 

 Spider cocoons, 197-200. 

 Spider, labyrinth, 191. 

 Spider nursery, 191. 

 Spider, orb-weaving, 88-98, 198. 

 Spider, triangle, 99-104. 

 Spider web on rainy day, 224. 

 Spiracles, 134. 



Spring flowers, fruits of, 166. 

 Squirrel, 215. 

 Stink bug, 21. 

 Stone-fly's life-story, 38. 

 Stone-fly nymphs, 38. 

 Strawberry plants, set with pearls, 5. 

 Stump fence, 12. 

 Sumachs, 13, 18, 19. 



Tadpoles, 230. 

 Tear-thumb, 183. 

 Teasels, 46, 70, 72. 

 Tent-caterpillar, 204. 

 Thrush, hermit, 157-159. 

 Thrush, wood, 157. 

 Tiarella, 48. 

 Toad's eggs, 228. 

 Touch-me-not, 85. 

 Tracheae, 133 



Tracheal gills of stone-fly nymphs, 39. 



Trachea! gills, plate-like, 64. 



Tracheal gills, tufted, 135. 



Trailing arbutus, 27, 30. 



Triangle spider, 99-104. 



Trillium fruit, 166. 



Trilliums, 223. 



Trout and stoneflies, 38. 



Trout, brook, 171, 174. 



Vines, brookside, 180-185. 

 Violet gone to seed, 21. 

 Violet, underground flowers, 21. 

 Violets, white and blue, 225, 226. 

 Virginia creeper, n, 180. 



Walking fern, 166. 

 Walking Party, 160-166. 

 Walking-stick, 166, 168. 

 Wanderer butterfly, 41. 

 Water-boatmen, 127-132. 

 Water-bug, 113. 

 Water-bug, giant, 116-119. 

 Water cresses, 17. 

 Water-scorpion, 116-119, 138. 

 Water-striders, 113-115. 

 Water-tiger, 135, 136. 

 Water-witch, 189, 190. 

 Webs, spider, 88-104. 

 Web-spinner, 88-98. 

 Whirligig beetles, 122-126, 139. 

 Whistles, 43, 145. 

 Wild folk, fastnesses of, 12. 

 Willows, 140-142. 

 Willow, home in, 146. 

 Willow, pine-cone galls, 140. 

 Willow whistles, 142-145. 

 Winter Walk, 201-207. 

 Witch-hazel, 188-190. 

 Witch's broom, 142. 

 Woodpecker, downy, 217. 

 Woolly aphids, 40. 

 Woolly bear, 201. 

 Wrigglers, 136. 



