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INDEX. 



Humming-bird, 51 . 



points of convergence with sun- 

 bird, 53. 



Hyacinths, wild, 24. 



description of, 26. 



I. 



Insects, food of tropical, 51. 

 J. 



Jerdon, Dr., his study of birds of India* 

 52. 



L. 



Lambs, spring, 36. 

 Leaf, the green, 55. 

 Leaves, what they are, 58. 



M. 



May flies on Venlake, 30. 

 Meadow-brome described, 68 

 Mole, the, at home, lOtt. 



description of, 106. 



food of, 108. 



fortress of the, 110. 



N. 



Nasturtium, ancestry of, 150. 

 P. 



Peaches, where they originally belonged, 



195. 

 Pears, the ancestry of, 200. 



description tree in southern 



Europe, 202. 



leaves of Ihe tree depcribed, 208. 

 Plants, why they disperse their seed, 86. 



wild, how changed, 103. 



development of, 104, 121. 



insect-eating, 133. 

 Plnms, family to which they belong, 



193. 

 PJnm trees, why they have lost their 



tboriie, 197. 



Pond-weed, its introduction into Eng- 

 land, 216. 

 Primrose time, 7. 



R. 



Rabbit, a snow-white wild, 135. 

 Rain on the root crops, 152. 

 Rhnbarb, 45. 

 Rodents, a winter's supply of, 90. 



S. 



Seedtime, early. 83. 



Shelley quoted, 166. 



Sloes, wnere they grow largest and 

 sweetest, 195. 



Solomon quoted, 160. 



Sorby, Mr., what he has shown, 47. 



Spring, bepinninffs of, 19. 

 flowers, 40. 



Spurge, on Oaverton Down. 22. 



Spencer, Herbert, observatton *& ani- 

 mals, 38. 



Squirrels, a nest of, 89. 



in what they differ from field- 

 mouse and nuthatch, 89. 

 Summer, a trip in, described, 71. 

 Sundew, Swmburne's lines about, 130. 

 Sundown, blood-ei;cking properties of, 



13U 

 Swallows, their return, 13. 



food of, 14. 



time of their return, 14. 



fearlessness of, 50. 

 Swifts, the departure of, 165. 



time seems longer to them than to 



man, 166. 



action of the, 167. 



nests of the, 168. 



increase of the, 168. 

 Selborn, the naturalist, puzzled by the, 



169. 



T. 



Thistledown described, 140. 



visitors of, 142. 



self -propagating, 143. 

 Thor, the hammer of, 222. 



the significance of, 223. 



the aborigines 1 ideas of, 224. 



derivation of thunder from, 224. 



how weapons of are cherished In 



Scotland, 225. 



names of places derived from. 226. 

 Trees, the actual life of, 57. 

 Trout, the food and description of, 30. 



V. 



Venlake, meaning of, 24. 

 Vine, vetch, the description of, 111. 



varieties of, 113. 



leaves of, 115. 



W. 



Wallace, his views of humming-birds, 52. 

 Weismann, Dr., on swallow migration, 



17. 

 Weeds, waterside, gracefulness of, 170. 



flowers of, 17) . 



progenitors of, 173. 

 - varieties of, 174. 



the aggressiveness of American, 



212. 

 Wheat, the kerning of the, 182. 



weeds among the, 182. 



sweetness of fresh, 183. 



the pedigree of, 184. 



coach-grass a epecies of, 184. 



goat-grass a wild form of, 185. 



Lake, its antiquity, 1&5. 



Lake, its extinction in England, 186. 

 Wild animals, extinction of in Britain, 70 

 Wood-sorrel, a trefoil of St. Patrick, 211' 



a colonist from Central Asia, 211.. 



Y. 



Yellow bird's-nest a rare plant in Eng- 

 land, 95. 



Yellow-rattle, foe in the hayfield, 94. 

 a description of, 05. 

 the relations 'of, SB. 

 the seifris of, 0&. 



