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INDEX. 



Pain, instance of insensibility 

 to, 12. 



Passerine birds, 245. 



Peacock butterfly, 289. 



Peewit, the, 255. 



Phallus, the stinking, 124. 



Pick-a-bud, name given to 

 the bull-finch, 156. 



Pimpernel, the, a prognosti- 

 cator of fine weather, 249 



Plants, blossoms of, 68 

 sugar in, 80 names given 

 to them of old, from their 

 supposed qualities, 89 

 pores of, 112 decomposi- 

 tion of, 119 dispersion of 

 the seeds of, 126 emission 

 of scents from, 362. 



Plants, wild, 23 foliage of, 

 60 flowers of, 65. 



Plants, tendency of, to revert 

 to their original creation, 

 37- 



Plants, preference given by, 

 to particular soils, 63. 



Pollarding trees, 401. 



Polypi of the coral, 9. 



Poor, employment of, in the 

 Author's village, 14. 



Poplar tree, 71- 



Potato, culture of the, 27 

 different sorts, 28 profits, 

 29 effects of, on soils, 31 

 history of this extraor- 

 dinary root, 32 value of, 

 as an article of food, 36. 



Prognostications of wind and 

 weather, 248, 268. 



Providence, inattention to 

 the works of, 348. 



Puff, the gray, 117 the tur. 

 reted, 126 the stellated, 

 127. 



Rapacious birds, 244. 



Rats, migration of, 137 

 other particulars of, 214. 



Raven, the, 171. 



Redwing, 259. 



Reeking of the earth, 404. 



Robin, the, 157- 



Roman encampment, 2 

 roads, 3. 



Rook, the, 177 its affec- 

 tion, 178 sagacity, 185 

 appears to be decreasing in 

 numbers, 1 93 its nests 

 and habits, 256. 



Rose, the white moss, 353, 

 (note) the wild, 396. 



Royal forest, indications of 

 one in Gloucestershire, 4. 



Seasons, variableness of, 204 



effect of, 359. 

 Sex, increase of, in 1825, 



138, (note). 

 Shrew, the water, 139 the 



common, 140 new species 



of, 141. 



Shrike, or Butcher-bird, 188. 

 Silk and flax, difference in 



the fibre of, 74. 

 Sinking of the earth, 380. 

 Skylark, the, 265. 

 Slowworm, 310. 

 Smelling, question of the 



sense of, in birds, 182. 

 Smokewood, sticks of the 



wild clematis so called, 1 10. 



