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INDEX 



Pansies ( Viola tricolor) : — Great va- 

 riety of color, 46 ; trickery of fiorists ; 

 aniline bath, 47 ; a chemical ex- 

 periment ; astonishing color, 48 ; 

 ammonia as an agent ; coloring an 

 entire plant emerald green, 50 ; 

 results from the fumes of sulphur 

 matches, 52. 



Passion-flower, 189. 



Passion-vine, 186. 



Perfumed beetle {^Osmoderma scabei), 

 curious odor of, 133 ; suggesting 

 Russia - leather ; home on the 

 maple-tree; sipping the sap; easily 

 startled, 134. 



Pink, 205. 



Plant-louse of the apple-tree, 236. 



Pliny, 64, 114, 116, 252. 



Pollen bearers, 30. 



Polyphemus. See Moths. 



Poly par us, 144. 



Preservation of food by wasps, 256. 



Primrose ash, 73. 



Professor of biology, 70. 



" Professor Wiggler," what a florist's 

 window suggested ; the lilac-bush 

 his home, 73 ; his characteristics, 

 74 ; how he came to be named ; 

 bringing him up by hand, 75 ; 

 lively capers, 76 ; five changes of 

 clothes; voracious feeding, 77; how 

 he retains his head-shells, 78 ; dig- 

 ging out a home, 79 ; home com- 

 pleted; skilful concealment; what 

 comes from the cocoon, 81 ; bur- 

 rowing habits, 82. 



Puff-balls, 136; its purple cloud, 

 136; rapid change of substance; 

 its cloud mass of reproducti"e 

 atoms, 137 ; same results from 

 mushrooms and toadstools, 138. 



Pungent odors, 132. 

 "Quaker." See Grasshopper. 



" Racer," 85. 



Red Admiral. See Butterflies. 



" Red-hot child of nature," 92, 96. 



Redstart, 176. 



Red-tailed hawk, 152, 153. 



Riddles in flowers, 202 ; curi- 

 ous specimens ; botanists and 

 philosophers, 204 ; pollen - carry- 

 ing, 207 ; galaxy of white or 

 blue stars, 208 ; variety of con- 

 struction, 209 ; solving the riddle, 

 211. 



Riley, C. V., quoted, 254. 



" Robin's pin-cushion," 43. 



Roland for an Oliver, 59. 



Roots, becoming stems and bearing 

 leaves, 87. 



Rose garden, 126. 



Roses, blue, 45, 46; green, 187. 



Rosy moth, 85. 



Rowen-field, 116, 218. 



Sabbath sanctuary bouquet, 26. 



Sacred " scarabaeus," emblem of im- 

 mortality, 53. 



Sage blossom, its wefcome to the 

 bee, 221. 



Sand-hornet: — Prospecting for game, 

 249 ; the capture, 250 ; manner of 

 transporting its prey, 251 ; its col- 

 or and terrible sting, 252 ; not to 

 be trifled with ; its home in the 

 sand-bank, 253 ; deposits its egg 

 and leaves, 254 ; its mysterious 

 poison, 256. 



Scrophiilaria, figwort, 28. 



Semicolon. See Butterflies. 



