viii LIST OF DESIGNS 



Pag,- 



yhi Iiiipossihle and Real Tendril i86 



Grape Tendrils Evolved from Blossoms iSS 



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



The Prank of a Tendril I93 



Initial. An Impaled " Quaker " 195 



The Haunt of the Grasshopper J97 



The liirth of the Parasites 200 



The Two-formed Flowers 202 



Puzzling Forms and Faces 20J 



A. Fertilization of a F louver, as Bclie7'cd by Greiv and Linnceus 206 



B. Linnaus's Idea was IVrong 206 



C. and D. What Sprcngel did not Explain 207 



1 he Way in which the Flower is Fertilized 210 



Initial. Chnwr Leaves 2tj 



A Rowen Field 21J 



A Five-Leaved Specimen 219 



Sleeping Clover. 220 



Initial. A Barberry Branch 221 



"In Arching Bowers" 22^ 



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



Barberry Blossoms. Sho7uing the Approach of the Bee. Fig. 2 22S 



Initial. A Woolly Flock 2jo 



One of the Flock Magnified ............ 2jj 



A Winged Aphis 2j^ 



Initial. Woodbine Branch a)id Sphinx Caterpillar . . . 2jS 



What Happened the Next Day 241 



What He Should Have Become 244 



The Mischief Maker 245 



Initial. Bearing Off the Prey 246 



A Section of the Sand-bank . 2^2 



In the Dungeon . i>jj 



