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INDEX 



Polistes, brown wasp, 161. 



Primrose, evening, 118. 



Psychic! : A sack-bearer ; drags its 

 house with it; feeds on seed-pods, 

 83; winter quarters of silk, 84. 



QUEER LITTLE FAMILY : Tree- 

 hopper ( Membracis binotata ) ; a 

 singular entertainment ; graceful 

 curves, 87; a branch in masquer- 

 ade ; queer thorns, 88 ; a sudden 

 disappearance ; animated thorns ; 

 like a covey of quails, 89 ; like 

 "Bob White," 90; singular agil- 

 ity; queer anatomy; always ready 

 for flight, 91; fondness for locust 

 and oak-trees, simulating the color 

 and character of the branches, 92 ; 

 manner of sitting on the branches, 

 93 ; always headed towards the 

 top; tiny tufts of cotton, 94; color 

 and size of the tufts; a mere frothy 

 shell ; a riddle, 95 ; its relations, 

 96; an investigation, 97; its tech- 

 nique, 98 ; aerated cement ; froth- 

 house builder, 99; period of hatch- 

 ing, 100 ; a house for the winter ; 

 not a wanderer, 101. 



RAGGED ORCHID (H. laceni), 200. 

 " Rattlesnake-plantain," 213. 

 Rudbeckia hirta, cone-flower, 138. 



SAGE (Sctlvia officinalis), strange 

 curved stamen, 119 ; nature's ar- 

 rangement, 112. 



Salvia, its welcome to the bee, 117. 



Self-fertilization, 141. 



Sheep-spit, 80. 



Showy orchid (H. orbicularis) , 194. 



Snorting war-horse, 18. 



Solitude, the pleasures of, 3. 



" Solomon's ant," 152. 



Spectabilis, orchid, 182 ; its favorite 

 haunt, 195. 



Spiders, agalena, epeira, argiope, 8 ; 

 a two years' span, 7 ; a silken vor- 

 tex ; miscellaneous food, 8. 



Spirant hes, " Lady's-tresses," 218. 



Sprengel, Christian Conrad: In- 

 spiration from the wild geranium, 

 108 ; on the mystery of color, 112 ; 

 theory of fertilization ; a poser to 

 Linnaeus, 113 ; his wrong theory, 

 114 ; divining half the truth, 176 ; 

 assumption disproved, 178. 



Spume-bearer (Aprophora), its dom- 

 icile of suds ; wonderful power of 

 jumping, 82. 



Starling ; dispossessing woodpecker 

 from nest, 43. 



Studio Company : " Tumultuous 

 privacy"; contested territory; 

 snickering squirrels, 4 ; selected 

 food ; unsymmetrical carpentry ; 

 drone of bees ; carol of birds ; 

 flurry of swifts ; accompaniments 

 to my toil, 5 ; wild fox; pet chip- 

 monk ; pet toad ; his lightning 

 tongue ; home in a bowl, 6 ; an 

 old friend, 9. 



Summer yellow-bird (Mnio- tilt idee), 



47- 

 Sweet-pogonia (P. ophioglossoides), 



145- 

 Swift, Jonathan, on parasites, 44. 



TENNYSON, quoted, 24. 



"The Secrets of Nature in Forms 

 and Fertilization of Flowers 

 Discovered," Sprengel's work, 



