INDEX 



AFFINITY, 304 



Air-sacs of birds, in 



Alder, 194, 201 



Alpine and arctic plants, 84 



Ancylus, 164, 167 



Andrsena, 273 



Animal globes, 180 



Anobium, 226 



Anodon, 163, 177 



Anthidium, 278 



Apple-tree, 200 



Aquarium, the freshwater, 41 ; the 

 marine, 43 



Arctic and alpine plants, 84 



Armadillo, 181 



Arteries, 34 



Ascia, 207 



Ash, 198, 201 ; its leaves rarely de- 

 faced, 15 



Aspen, 150, 195 



Atropos, 229 



BALSAM poplar, 149, 196 



Bananas, 116 



Banks, Sir Joseph, 257 



Barbary ape, 149 



Bat, hand of, 40 



Beech, 196, 201, 212, 219; wood 



of. 45. 

 Bees, industries of wild, 273 ; nests 



and cells of, 278 

 Birch, 201 



Birds, air-sacs of, in 

 Bombus, 279 



Bongardt on glowworm, 46 

 Bookworms, 225 

 Botanical gardens, the first, 60 



Botany and travel, 260 



Boughs, summer droop of, 44 



Bramble, 158 



Briar, 158 



Bryony, 156, 159, 175 



Burmeister on barnacles, 70 



Busbecq, 61 



Butler on wood-boring beetles and 



their parasites, 227 

 Buttercups, 292 



CAMERA obscura, 109 

 Campagna of Rome, 259 

 Campodea, 120 

 Canaries, 12 

 Capuchin monkey, 148 

 Carder- bees, 278 

 Cat, ii 



Celandine, 293 

 Cellar-slug, 12 

 Chalk, 217 

 Cheese-hoppers, 114 

 Chelifer, 105, 228 

 Cherry-tree, 200 

 Cheyletus, 228 

 Chitin, 243 

 Chiton, 183 

 Ciniflo, 215, 216 

 Cinquefoils, 295 

 Claparede on museums, 289 

 Cleavers, 159 



Cleistogamous flowers, 136 

 Clematis, 159 

 Climbing plants, 156, 176 

 Clover, 122, 126, 131 

 Cockroach, 242 

 Common trees, 194 



