viii LIST OF DESIGNS 



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An Impossible and Real Tendril . 186 



Grape Tendrils Evolved from Blossoms . 188 



The Star Cucumber and its Compound Tendrils .... IQO 



The Prank of a Tendril 193 



Initial. An Impaled " Quaker " . . . /pj 



The Haunt of the Grasshopper igj 



The Birth of the Parasites 200 



The Two-formed Flowers 202 



Puzzling Forms and Faces 203 



A. Fertilization of a Flower, as Believed by Grew and Linnceus 206 



B. Linnceus s Idea was Wrong 206 



C. and D. What Sprengel did not Explain ...... 207 



The Way in which the Flower is Fertilized 210 



Initial. Clover Leaves 213 



A Rowen Field 217 



A Five-Leaved Specimen . 219 



Sleeping Clover 220 



Initial. A Barberry Branch 221 



"In Arching Bowers" 225 



Barberry Blossoms, Showing Sepals and Petals Open. Fig. i 226 



Barberry Blossoms, Showing the Approach of the Bee. Fig. 2 228 



Initial A Woolly Flock 230 



One of the Flock Magnified 233 



A Winged Aphis 235 



Initial. Woodbine Branch and Sphinx Caterpillar . . . 238 



What Happened the Next Day 241 



What He Should Have Become 244 



The Mischief -Maker 245 



Initial. Bearing Off the Prey 146 



A Section of the Sand-bank 252 



In the Dungeon . 233 



