INDEX. 



Accessory shoots, 6. 

 Acorn, 4, 7, 10-23, 130 ; figs. 1-3. 

 Age of oak, J51. 

 Alburnum, 110, 136. 

 Annual rings, 95-108, 136. 

 Axis-cylinder, 24, 28, 32, 91; 

 fig. 5. 



Bark, 98, 111, 118-120; fig. 30. 



Bast. See Phloem. 



Beech, 148, 151. 



Biology of roots, 36. 



Bud, 50, 72-76, 127; figs. 19, 32. 



Burning of oak, 142. 



Burrs, 7. 



Cambium, 40, 52, 64, 92, 98, 100, 



103, 111 ; figs. 9, 24. 

 Cattle, 155. 

 Cells, 15, 136. 

 Chlorophyll, 79, 85. 

 Cnethocampa, 1 54. 

 Common bundles, 47. 

 Coppice, 149. 



Cork, 93, 116; figs. 17, 18. 

 Cortex, 52, 98; figs. 17, 18. 

 Cotyledons, 14, 130, 134 ; figs. 2, 



3, 37. 

 Course of vascular bundles, 42-51, 



68-71 ; figs. 10, 11. 

 Cultivation of oak, 147-152. 

 Cupule, 10, 124, 130. 

 Cynipe, 153, 162; fig. 48. 



Density of oak, 138. 

 Diseases of oak, 152-163. 

 Drainage, 153. 

 Dry-rot. See Merulius. 

 Durability of oak, 142. 

 Duramen, 109, 136. 



Elasticity of oak, 140. 



Embryo, 14. 



Embryonic tissue, 17, 28, 41, 96; 



figs. 2, 6, 25. 

 Embryo-sac, 128 ; fig. 35. 

 Endodermis, 30, 32 ; fig. 5. 

 Epidermis, 16, 39, 41, 52. 



Fertilization, 130. 



Fibers, 60, 106, 108, 113, 136; 



fig. 16. 



Flexibility of oak, 141. 

 Flowers of oak, 121 ; figs. 31, 32. 

 Folk-lore, 2, 3. 

 Fruit of oak, 10, 131. 

 Fundamental tissue, 16, 39. 

 Fungi, 96, 153, 156-163 ; figs. 25, 



42-47. 



Gall-insects, 161 ; fig. 48. 

 General description of oak, 5. 

 Germination, 10-23. 

 Growing-point, 37, 74, 96 ; figs. 6, 



19. 

 Growth in thickness, 68, 91, 100- 



103. 



