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INDEX 



Flowering Currant, bud-scale of, 



123 

 Frost, depth to which it reaches, 



28 



effect on injurious Insects, 32 

 effect on marine animals, 31 

 fruit-eating Birds in, 9 

 Furze in, 31 

 of 1895, 30 

 water-mains in, 29 

 Fruits and seeds dispersed by 



currents, 284 

 Fungi, habitats of, 139 

 Furze in frost of 1895, 31 



GIRDLED pupre, 179 



Gossamer, 240 



Grasses, 145 



Gray's Tour in north of England, 



231 

 Grouse in winter, 27 



HABITATS of Fungi, 139 



of Insects, 139 

 Hair-streak Butterfly, 179 

 Harvey on Insects, 165 

 Hay-time, 143 

 Hazel, flowers of, 73, 80 



fruit of, 8l, 87 

 Heather, 211 

 Hoar-frost, 15, 2 1 

 Honey-sucking Insects, 249 



ICHNEUMONS, 182 

 Insect-pupje in winter, i 

 Insects, flower-haunting, 248 

 habitats of, 139 

 transformations of, 164 

 in mid-winter, 3 



JENNER, 108 



LAGRANGE'S maxims, 199 



Landslips, 33 



Lapland, cold winds of, 223 



Leaf, Fall of the, 272 



Leaves of moorland plants, 210 



Leprosy, 191 



Lilac, bud of, 128 



Ling, 211 



MACALISTER on mechanics 01 

 Bone, 155 



Malfrighi on Insect-transforma- 

 tions, 1 66 



Maritime and Saline Plants, 225 



Mayerne, 165 



Meloe, 89 



Microgaster, 183 



Midsummer Blooms, 142 



Mimicry of Bees and Wasps, 252 



Moon, 54 



Moonwort, 2 



Moorland Plants, 208 



Moufet's Theatrum Insectorum, 

 165 



Mountains, the Love of, 229 



Muscatel, flower-bud of, 135 



NARDUS, 215 



Negative exceptions, 79, 229 



OIL-BEETLE (Meloe), 89 



PAI^EARCTIC plants and animals, 



206 



Paramos, vegetation of, 219 

 Peacock Butterfly, 198 

 Petrarch, his ascent of Mont 



Ventoux, 230 

 Plants, cold endured by, 6 



RAILWAY-STATION, botany of, 



137 

 Reaumur on pupae of Butterflies, 



177 



Redbreasts, 26 

 Reversed Spiral, 236 

 Rock-crystal of Alps, 24 

 Rousseau on Swiss scenery, 231 

 Routine, 199 

 Ruminant colon, 239 

 Rush, 218 



SACCOGLOTTIS AMAZONICA, 284 

 Saddleback, ascent of, 232 

 Scurvy, 191 



Shortest Day of the Year, 288 

 Simon's Seat, 229 

 Simulium-larvre in winter, 3 

 Sitaris, 101, 102 



