INDEX 



339 



Arenaria rlorU'ria, I look, f., sec 



the Dwarf Alsine 

 Aretia vUaliana, Murr. , see Vital's 



Androsace 

 Arnica (medicinal), 133 

 Arnicd m(jutana, Linn., see the 



Arnica 

 Arnica, the, 183, 2G7 

 Arolla, 243 



Arolla Pine, see tlie Stone Pine 

 Arum marulafum, Linn., see the 



Cuckoo- Pint 

 Asia, lOii, 'J 19 

 Asia, Central, 104, 297, 305 

 Asia, Northern, 20 

 Asphodel, the Scotch, 178 

 Astrantia, 124 



Atmosphere, the, 10, 11, 202 

 composition of, 12 

 dryness of, 12, 202 

 Atrageiie al/'ina^ Linn., see the 



Alpine Clematis 

 Atragene, the, see the Alpine 



Clematis 

 Auricula, the, 67, 70-71, 117 

 and soils, 71, 117 

 hybrids of, 70-71 



protections against transpiration, 71 

 Auriculas, the cultivated, 67, 70 



origin of, 70 

 Australia, 104 



Austrian Alps, the, 118, 297-298 

 Avalanches, effects of, 94, 237, 238, 239 

 Avens, the, 230, 286 

 Avens, the Creeping, 41, HI, 127- 



128, 131 

 Avens, the Mountain, 39, 41, 108, 



111, 127-128 

 Avens, the Water, 151, 157-159, 280 

 Awned fruits, 3(), 39-41, 108, 128, 158- 



159, 230, 284 

 Azalea procumfiens, Linn., see the 



Trailing Azalea 

 Azalea, the rrainng,22, 106, 109-110, 



186, 231 

 Azaleas, the, 22, 109 



Ball, John. 5, 8, 173, 305 

 Bartsia, 218 



Hats as Uowcr pollinators, 279 



Hcarbi-rry, the Al|)ine, 224, 230-231 



Bearhcrry, the Ked, 230-231 



Bcarbcrrifs, the, 230-231 



lifd.straw, the, 229 



Beech, the, 5, 235 



Bees as cross-|>ollinators, 46, 55, 69, 



115, 161. 105, 168, 223, 270 

 Beetles as unbidden guests, 209, 



276 

 Bel Alp, the, 23 



Bell-flower, Schcuchrcr's, 84-87, ^8, 

 89, 152 

 mechanism of stylar brush, 85-87 

 unbidden guests, protections 

 against, bb 

 Bell-tlower, the Bearded, 46,88, 272, 

 277 

 appendages on corolla, 89 

 the b«ird of hairs, 89, 277 

 Bell-tlower, the Incised, 90 

 Bell-tlower, the Mont Cenis, 89-90 

 Bell-tlower, the Tutted, 90-91, 114, 

 277 

 biennial, 91, 114 

 hairs on, 91, 277 

 yellow tlowers of. 90 

 Bell-tlowers, the, 34, 44, 61, 83-91, 

 92, 150, 152, 263, 280, 284 

 distribution of the seeds, 88 

 fruit, ^B, 263 



stylar brush mechanism, 85-87 

 Bell Gentians, see Gentians, the Ikll 

 JJeUulantrum michflii, Cass., see the 



Alpine Daisy 

 Bbllis pfrtntiui, Linn., see the 



Common Daisy 

 Berne, Canton, 175 

 Bernese Obcrland, the, 116, 174, 



175, 242. 294, 296 

 Berries, 220-222, 225, 227, 283, 255, 



200, 2^5 

 Best time ot year for tlowers, 28-29 

 B(tuhict(F^ sec the Birch family 

 Biennials, 106, 114 

 Bilberries, the, 220, 221-224. 231, 244 



pollination of. 223-224 

 Bilberry family, the, 221 

 Bilberry, the True, 221-222, 223, 224 

 Binnen'Thal, the. 90 

 Bird life in the Alps, 220-231, 285 

 Birch family, the, 233 



