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177. Absorption by the Leaves. Mariotte's experiment . . . . . 375 



178. Force of Vegetable Circulation and Absorption 378 



179. Scene in North America. Collecting the Sap of the Sugar-Maple . . 379 



180. The Wine-Tree or Wine-Bearing Sago-Palm : Sagus vinifera . . . 383 



181. Respiration of Plants. Disengagement of Oxygen under Water . . . 389 



182. Discovery of the Transpiration of Plants . 393 



183. Transpiration in Plants 394 



184. Transpiration in the Sunflower 395 



185. Edible Arum : Colocasia esculenta 397 



186. The Weeping-Tree : Ccesalpinia pluuiosa , 399 



187. Pitcher-Plant : Nepenthes distillatoria .401 



188. The Purple Sarracenia : Sarracenia purpurea 403 



189. Gigantic Lycoperdon or Puff- Ball 407 



190. The Tapioca Plant and its Root : Mani/iot ut'dissima . ... . . 410 



191. Manna-Tree: Fraxinus ornus, and Manna-Gathering in Sicily . . . 414 



192. Combustion of the Vapors of Bastard Dittany . . . ff 415 



193. Thyrsus of Flowers of the Yellow Cinchona : Cinchona cordifolia . . .419 



194. Nutmeg-Tree : Myristica moschata 421 



195. The Camphor-Tree or Camphor-Laurel : Laurus Camphora .... 423 



196. Sensitive Plant Asleep and Awake : Mimosa pudica 430 



197. The Mandrake : Atropa Mandragora 434 



198. Semaphore Plant : Desmodia oscillans . . . . . . . . 442 



199. Venus' Fly-Trap : Dioncea muscipula 444 



200. Sacred Lotus of the Egyptians : Nelumbium speciosum .... 449 



201. Flowers of Rafflesia Arnoldi . . .454 



202. Influence of Insects upon the Fecundation of Flowers .... 465 



203. Nuptials of the Common Utricularia : Utricularia vulgaris .... 469 



204. Branch of the Utricularia laden with its Hydrostatic Vesicular Leaves . 473 



205. Forest of Mangroves 477 



206. Germination of an Arundo Indica . 479 



207. Roots lighted from below and directing themselves towards the Light . . 483 



208. Forest of Palm-Trees on the Banks of the Nile : Phcenix dactylifera . . 487 



209. Arborescent Ferns of the Forests of New Zealand 493 



210. Chapel Oak of Allouville, Normandy . . . . . . . . 497 



211. The Great Chestnut-Tree of Mount Etna, called of a Hundred Horses . . 501 



212. Gigantic Cedar of California : Wellingtonia gigantea 505 



213. The Lime-Tree of the Battle of Morat 509 



214. Gigantic Baobab of the African Forests : Adansonia digitata . . . 513 

 .215. Dragon's-Blood Tree of the Island of Teneriffe : Dracncea Draco . . . 516 



216. The Green Tremella : Tremella atro-virens 519 



217. Edible Air-Borne Lichen : Lecanora esculenta 522 



218. Imaginary View of a Forest of the Coal Period 545 



219. Imaginary Landscape during the Secondary Epoch, with Pterodactyls . . 553 



220. Head of Ichthyosaurus : Ichthyosaurus communis 555 



221. Gnomes of the German Legends laying bare the Skeleton of an Ichthyosaurus 557 



222. Fossil Shells of the Secondary Period 560 



223. Imaginary Landscape during the Tertiary Period, with groups of Palaeothe- 



ria, etc 565 



224. Fossil Shells of the Tertiary Epoch 568 



