Vl CONTENTS. 



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Tortoise lieotle Devil's Coach-horse Bombardier Beetle 

 Oil Beetle Sexton Beetles The Skipjack Beetle and its 

 lurva The Wire-worm aiid its natural enemies The Stg 

 15eetle I^ady-birds and plant lice Markings on brnmble 

 and other leaves How they are caused Descriptions of the 

 larvae which mine these leaves Gall insects Bedeguars 

 Button Galls Oak Spangles How they are produced 

 Turnip Saw Fly Great Saw Fly Saws of ditto Greeu 

 Grasshopper Ita mimetic colour ... . 176 208 



, CHAPTER VII. 



THE SNAILS AKD SLUGS OF THE GREEN LANES. 



Mollusra The Slugs Their anatomical structure Eggs of 

 slugs, where deposited Parasites on snails and slugs The 

 Garden Slug Great Slug Yellow Slug Field Slug Tree 

 Slug-^Jaws of Slugs Sowerby's Slug Jet-black Slug 

 The Testacella and its diminutive shell Zoological meaning 

 of latter Tentacles of slugs and snails Spotted Snail 

 Where eaten and usedRoman SnailGarden Snail Wood 

 Snail Orchard Snail Bristly Snail Prickly Snail Scaly 

 Snail White Snail Carthusian Snail Zoned Snail- 

 Kentish Snail Wrinkled Snail Heath Snail Lapidary 

 Snail Rounded Snail Pigmy Snail Buddy Snail Bu- 

 limas and Pupa Clausilia, structure of shell Antiquity of 

 land snails Physical changes testified to by certain species 



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CHAPTER Vm. 



THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE GREEN LANES. 



Our British flowering plants Thel)aisy Pile-wort Bulbous 

 Crowfoot Variety of the Ranunculacese Aquatic Crowfoot 

 Goldilocks Upright Crowfoot Creeping Crowfoot Cuckoo 

 Pint Its structure Aborted stamens and pistils The 

 Ground Ivy Red Nettle Stitchwort Germander Speed- 

 well Thyme-leaved Veronica Self-heal Folk-lore of ditto 

 Bugle Red Campion White Campion Ragged Robin 

 Moschatel Dogs' Mercury Treacle Mustard Dead 



