INDEX 



315 



False winter-green. See Polygala. 



Fennel-worm. See Butterfly (Asterias). 



Field - mouse, tracks of, in snow, 248 ; 

 wintering in a bird's-nest, 232. 



Finch, purple, nest materials of, 224. 



Fire - weed {Epilobium angusti folium), 

 winter rosettes of, 241. 



Fire - works from club - mosses in the 

 woods, 149. 



Fish-crow as a nest-hunter, 230. 



Flagg, Wilson, quoted. "Drum" of 

 grouse, 42 ; vireo, 221. 



Flicker, or golden-winged woodpecker, 

 40. 



Flowering dog-wood. See Dog-wood. 



Flowering winter - green, or Fringed 

 polygala, 63. 



Flowerless plants (Acrogens), type of, 107. 



Flowers, earliest, 1-3, 19-24; under- 

 ground, of polygala, 63, 64, and wild- 

 bean, 165; of autumn, 202; flowers 

 which are not flowers painted-cup, 

 62; dog- wood, 50; flowers without pet- 

 als never opening (Cleistogamic), 205; 

 various, at night, 126-128. See Wild 

 Flowers. 



Fly, a talking, 162-164 ; blue-bottle, in 

 bird's-nest, 221 ; carnivorous (Asilus), 

 164-179; mimic bumblebee (Laph- 

 ria), 179-182 ; various, in sweep-net, 

 119. 



Fly -catcher, great -crested, snake -skin 

 nest of, 224. 



Flying seeds, 170-174. 



Fox-hair in bird's-nest, 224. 



Fox-sparrow (Passerella iliacd), 213. 



Fragrant suma.ch(/?Ausaromati<:a), 90,94. 



Fries, the fungologist, on puff-ball, 177, 

 187. 



Fringed gentian (G. Crinita), flowers at 

 night, 126; Bryant's allusion to, 227. 



Fringed polygala (P. pauci folia), 63. 



Frog music, 52, 53 ; European, 6 ; South- 

 ern, 55. 



Frogs, clucking, 52; Savannah cricket 

 (Acris crepitans), 8, 10; peeping (ffy- 

 lodes Pickeringi),(>-\z; song of, 8; in 

 autumn, 9, 194 ; tree, 9; wood, 52, 194; 

 toy decoy ("locust") for mimicry of, 

 52 ; mimicry of song, 9, 52, 194. 



Frost-weed (ffelianthemum), 210. 



Fruit, an underground, 165-167. 



Fungus : Cedar-apple, 57 ; fairy ring, 

 177; growing on insects, 190, 191 ; va- 

 rious species of, 187-191; myriad spores 

 of, 187 ; method of vegetation, 177. 



GALINSOGA, beautiful seed of, 172. 



Galls: Aphis, 60 ; cone, of willow, 207; 

 rose, of willow, 209; of golden-rod, 

 257; oak-apple, 57 ; various, 208, 257; 

 witch - brooms, 259 (see also May- 

 apple, 58; and false May-apple, 60.) 



Garlic flower, pollen of, 115. 



Gentian, fringed (Gentiana crinita), 126, 

 227 ; closed (G. Andrewsii), 228. 



Geranium, wild, or Cranesbill, 126. 



Gerarde and his "rose-willow," 209. 



Germination : Maple, 4, 5, 25-29 ; oak, 

 clover, and beech, 25-29. 



Ginger, wild (Asarum Canadensis), 21. 



Ginseng, dwarf (Aralia trifolid), 65. 



Girdler- beetle (Oncideres), 260. 



Gnat-catcher, blue-gray, nest materials 

 of, 224. 



Gnats in sweep-net, 119. 



Golden-beetle ( Cassida auric halcea), 99. 



Golden-crested thrush. See Oven-bird. 



Golden-crested wren, nest materials of, 

 224. 



Golden-rod (Solidago), 202, 226 ; bulb- 

 ous, gall of, 257 ; musical beetles of, 

 142 ; seeds of, 1 73. 



Goose-grass. See Cleavers. 



Gossamers and dew, 124. 



Crackles, 41. 



Grass, blades of, marking on snow, 268. 



Grasshopper : Meadow (Orchtlimum 



