ANTIRRHINUM. 



INDEX. 



AUSTRALIA. 



431 



Antirrhinum majus, peloric, i. 389, ii. 

 33, 46, 150 ; double-flowered, ii. 151 ; 

 bud-variation in, i. 407. 



Ants, individual recognition of, ii. 238. 



Aphides, attacking pear-trees, ii. 217; 

 development of, ii. 361-362. 



Apoplexy, hereditary, occurring at a 

 certain age, ii. 54. 



Apple, i. 369-372; fruit of, in Swiss 

 lake-dwellings, i. 335 ; rendered fasti- 

 gate by heat in India, i. 385 ; bud- 

 variation in the, i. 401 ; with dimi- 

 diate fruit, i. 425, 426 ; with two 

 kinds of fruit on the same branch, i. 

 425 ; artificial fecundation of, i. 432 ; 

 St. Valery, i. 432, ii. 150 ; reversion 

 in seedlings of, ii. 4 ; crossing of 

 varieties of, ii. 110; growth of the, 

 in Ceylon, ii. 266 ; winter majetin, 

 not attacked by coccus, ii. 217 ; 

 flower-buds of, attacked by bull- 

 finches, ibid. ; American, change of, 

 when grown in England, ii. 264. 



Apricot, i. 365, 366 ; glands on the 

 leaves of, ii. 217 ; analogous variation 

 in the, ii. 341. 



Aquila fusca, copulating in captivity, 

 ii. 137. 



Aquilegia vulgaris, i. 389 ; ii. 323. 



Arab boarhound, described by Har- 

 court, i. 17. 



Ara)ns blepharophylla and A. soyeri, 

 effects of crossing, i. 431. 



Aralia trifoliata, bud-variation in leaves 

 of, i. 408. 



Araucarias, young, variable resistance 

 of, to frost, ii. 299. 



Archangel pigeon, ii. 226. 



Arctic regions, variability of plants 

 and shells of, ii. 244. 



Aria vestita, grafted on thorns, i. 413. 



Aristophanes, fowls mentioned by, i. 

 258. 



Aristotle, on solid-hoofed pigs, i. 78 ; 

 domestic duck unknown to, i. 292 ; 

 on the assumption of male characters 

 by old hens, ii. 26. 



Arxi, domestication of the, i. 86. 



Arnold, Mr., experiments of pollen on 

 the maize, i. 431. 



Arrests of development, ii. 306-310. 



Arteries, increase of anastomosing 

 branches of, when tied, ii. 290. 



Ap.U Islands, wild pig of, i. 70. 



Arum, Polynesian varieties of, ii. 243. 



Ascaris, number of eggs of, ii. 373. 



Ash, varieties of the, i. 384 ; weeping, 

 i. 385 ; simple-leaved, ibid. ; bud- 

 variation in, i. 408 ; effects of graft 

 upon the stock in the, i. 418 ; pro- 

 duction of the blotched Breadalbane, 

 ibid. ; weeping, capricious reproduc- 

 tion of, by seed, i. 462. 



Asinus burchellii, i. 67. 



Asinus hemionus, ii. 17. 



Asinus indicus, ii. 17, 22. 



Asinus quagga, i. 67. 



Asinus twniopus, ii. 16 ; the original of 

 the domestic ass, i. 65. 



Asparagus, increased fertility of culti- 

 vated, ii. 91. 



Ass, early domestication of the, i. 65 ; 

 breeds of, Aid. ; small size of, in 

 India, ibid. ; stripes of, i. 66, 67 ; ii. 

 343 ; dislike of, to cross water, i. 190 ; 

 reversion in, ii. 16, 17, 22 ; hybrid 

 of the, with mare and zebra, ii. 16 ; 

 prepotency of the, over the horse, ii. 

 43 ; crossed with wild ass, ii. 190 ; 

 variation and selection of the, ii. 222. 



Assyrian sculpture of a mastiff, i. 17. 



Asters, i. 463, ii. 307. 



Asthma, hereditary, i. 452, ii. 55. 



Atavism. See Reversion. 



Atiielstan, his care of horses, ii. 187. 



Atkinson, Mr., on the sterility of the 

 Tarroo silk-moth in confinement, ii. 

 141. 



Aubergine, ii. 68. 



Audubon, on feral hybrid ducks, i. 

 200, ii. 20 ; on the domestication of 

 wild ducks on the Mississippi, i. 292 ; 

 . on the wild cock turkey visiting 

 domestic hens, i. 308 ; fertility of 

 Fringilla ciris in captivity, ii. 137; 

 fertility of Columha migratoria and 

 leucocephala in captivity, ii. 139 ; 

 breeding of Anser canadensis in cap- 

 tivity, ii. 140. 



Audubon and Bachman, on the change 

 of coat in Ovis montana, i. 103 ; ste- 

 rility of Sciurus cinerea in confine- 

 ment, ii. 135. 



Auricula, effect of seasonal conditions 

 on the, ii. 263 ; blooming of, ii. 339. 



Australia, no generally useful plants 

 derived from, i. 328 ; useful plants 

 of, enumerated by Hooker, i. 328. 



