INDEX. 



AcanthacecB in the Prodromus, 22. 

 African, South, Plants, Harvey's, 36. 

 Agassiz's Zoological Nomenclator, 41. 

 Aldrovanda vesiculosa, insectivorous 



habits of, 208. 

 Algce, fecundation of, 91. 

 Alligator Pear, history of the, 342. 

 Allium, North American, 281. 

 Allium stellatum, 281. 

 Allium vineale, 281. 

 Amarantacece in the Prodromus, 27. 

 Amelanchier, 195. 

 Amole, 198. 

 Ampelidece, Planehon's Monograph of, 



250. 

 Ampelopsis, characters of, discussed, 



251. 

 Ancestry of plants, 269. 

 Andes, Peruvian, Ball's Flora of, 384. 

 Anemophilous plants, 234. 

 Anthephora axillijlora, 113. 

 Apple, effect of foreign pollen on an, 



described (note), 189. 

 Aquilegia Jlavescens, 185. 

 Archaeology, plant, 269. 

 Arctic Plants, distribution of, 122. 

 Asclepiadece in the Prodromus, 19. 

 Aspirate, use of, in forming botanical 



names, 262. 

 Australia, Bentham's Flora of, 246. 

 Authors' names, citation of, discussed, 



370. 



Balanophoreoe, structure and affinities 



of, 94. 

 Ball, John, and J. D. Hooker, Tour in 



Marocco, 255. 

 Ball's Flora of the Peruvian Andes, 



384. 



Banana, history of the cultivation of 



the, 344. 

 Basin, the Great, character of, de- 

 scribed, 181. 

 Basin, the Great, statistics of the vege- 

 tation of, 182. 

 Batatas vulgaris, origin of , discussed, 



317. 

 Beans cultivated by North American 



Indians, 348. 

 Bentham on Euphorhiacece, 259. 

 Bentham's Flora of Australia, 246. 

 Bentham's Flora of Hongkong, 117. 

 Bentham's Hand-Book of the British 



Flora, 104. 

 Bentham and Hooker's Genera Plan- 



tarum, 355. 

 Bignonia capreolata, mode of growth 



of, 177. 

 Bolandra, 282. 

 Borrea ciliaris, black dots on ^note), 



58. 

 Botanical descriptions in various lan- 

 guages contrasted, 302. 

 Botanical riddles, 291. 

 Botanical works, methods of publica- 

 tion of, discussed, 285. 

 Botanists, characteristics of, 284. 

 Botany, fossil, discussion of, 269. 

 Botany, Henfrey's, 72. 

 Botany, Natural System of, 1. 

 Botany, Watson's, of the 40th Parallel, 



180. 

 Bottle-gourd, history of the, 330. 

 Boussingault on Influence of Nitrates, 



100. 

 Brazil, antiquity of the flora of, dis- 

 cussed, 387. 



