INDEX 



(For references to the technical terms mentioned in the text, 

 see APPENDIX I., p. 307.) 



Abies excelsa, Poir., see the Spruce 

 Abies larix, Poir., see the Larch 

 Abies pectinata, D. C., see the Silver 



Abnormal growths, 288-291 

 Accommodation to parasitic plants, 



288-291 



Achillea atrata, Linn., 174 

 Aconite, the Winter, 208, 210 

 Aconitine, 130 



Aconitum, see the Monkshoods 

 Aconitum lycoctonum, Linn., 130-131 

 Aconitum napellus, Linn., 130-131 

 Adenostyles leucophylla, Reich., 177 

 Advertisements, flower, 78, 271-275 

 Affinities of the Alpine Flora, 297- 



300 

 Ajuga pyramidalis, Linn., see the 



Alpine Bugle 



Alchemilla, see the Lady's Mantle 

 Alder, the Green, 233-234, 277 

 Aletsch Glacier (Bernese Oberland), 



173 



Algae, the, 96, 292, 293 

 Alkaloids, 122, 130, 168 

 Almagell (near Saas), 244 

 Alnus viridis, D. C., see the Green 



Alder 



Alpenglockchen, 61 

 Alpenrose Apples, 291 

 Alpenrose, the Common, 21-27, 117 

 affinities of, 22 

 and soils, 177 

 837 



Alpenrose, the Common- continued 



habitat of, 24 



scales on leaves of, 26-27 



transpiration of, 25 

 Alpenrose, the Hairy, 21-27, 117 



and soils, 25, 117 



scales on leaves of, 27 



specific characters of, 25 

 Alpenroses, the, 14, 20, 21-27, 177, 

 220, 224, 244, 259, 260, 281, 291 



derivation of name, 22 



galls on, 291 



time of flowering of, 31 

 Alp (Alpen), 23, 24 

 Alpine plant defined, 3, 5 

 Alpine Rose, see Rose, the Alpine 

 Alpine species, number of, 8 

 Alpine zone defined, 3, 5 

 Alpines in the Arctic regions, 299, 



305-306 



Alps, the, as barriers, 304 

 Alps, the Austrian, 297, 298 

 Alsine aretioides, M. K., 185 

 Alsine octandra, Schur., see A. 



aretioides, M. K. 

 Alsine sedoides, Froel, see the Dwarf 



Alsine 



Alsine, the Dwarf, 184-185 

 Alsines, the High Alpine, 184-185 

 Altai, the, 297, 298 

 Amber, 241 

 America, North, 109, 249, 303, 304, 



305 



America, South, 231 

 Andes, the, 231 



