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INDEX 



Endoconidium temulentum, 47 



Energy, available, 121 



Energy of food, 120 



English ivy as a poisonous plant, 87 



Ensilage, 117 



Epigastric, relating to the upper middle 



part of the abdominal surface. 

 Equisetin, 40 

 Equisetosis, 39 

 Equisetum arvense, 39 

 Erepsin, 118 



Ergot, 28-31; chemical nature of, 29 

 Ergotism, 30; gangrenous, 30-31 

 Ericaceae, as poisonous plants, 92 

 Erigeron canadensis, 243 

 Eructation, belching, 42 

 Erysimum orientale, 267 

 Erythrina suberosa, 184 

 Erythrocyte, a red blood-corpuscle. 

 Erythroxylum coca, 230 

 Eschanzier, Dr. Francis, of San Luis, 



Potosi, Mexico, 6 

 Esparto grass, 129 

 Estivation, the arrangement of parts in 



the flower bud. 

 Eucalyptus, 230 

 Euchlaena mexicana, 155 

 Eupatorium ageratoides, as a poisonous 



plant, 104; urticaefolium, 104 

 Euphorbia Lathyris as a poisonous plant, 



79; marginata, as a poisonous plant, 



79; species of, as poisonous plants, 



79; splendens and its latex, 85 

 European hemlock, as a poisonous plant, 



8? 



Evening primrose, 248 

 Ewart, experiments with seeds, 255 

 Exalbuminous, with reserve food stored 



inside of the seed leaves (cotyledons) 



in the embryo of seeds. 

 Exstipulate, without stipules, or basal 



outgrowths of the petiole of the leaf. 

 Extf a vaginal branching, 123 



Fagopyrum esculentum, 174 

 Fascicle, a close cluster; a bundle. 



Fat in corn, 160 



Feces, dung, or the excretions of the 



bowels. 



Feeding et seq., 117 

 Feeding standard, 121 

 Feeds, 117 et seq. 

 Feeds, nature of, 118 

 Fenugreek, 185, 212 

 Fermentations, secondary, 15 

 Fescue grasses, 140; meadow, 140; sheep's, 



140 

 Festuca elatior, 140; ovina, i4o;pratensis, 



140 



Fiber plants of Leguminosae, 184 

 Ficus carica, 233; elastica, 228 

 Field pea, 199; Canadian, 199; cultivated, 



199; description of, 199; harvesting, 



199; utility, 200 

 Field sorrel, 246 

 Fife wheat, 167 

 Fig, 233 



Flamboyant tree, 185 

 Flax, 228, 236; New Zealand, 230 

 Florets, 104 



Florida beggar- weed, 212 

 Florida clover, 187 

 Flowers for perfume, 230 

 Fly agaric, 33 

 Fly poison, 33 

 Fodder, definition of, 177 

 Fodder plants of the Leguminosae, 184 

 Food energy, 120 

 Forage plants, definition, 117; grasses; 



131; of the Leguminosae, 187; mis- 

 cellaneous, 212 

 Fox grape, 234 

 Foxtail, meadow, 138 

 Foxtail millet, 147 

 Fragaria chiloensis, 233; vesca, 233;vir- 



giniana, 233 

 Fruit crops, 231 

 Fruit of Leguminosae, 183 

 Fruits, tropical, 235 

 Fun, Harold, recovery of, 88 

 Fungi, poisonous, 28-39 

 Furze, 212 



