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INDEX 



Polistes, brown wasp, t6i. 



Primrose, evening, Il8. 



Psychid ; — A sack-bearer ; drags its 

 house with it; feeds on seed-pods, 

 83; winter quarters of sillc, 84. 



Queer Little Family : — Tree- 

 hopper ( Memhracis binotata ) ; a 

 singular entertainment ; graceful 

 curves, 87; a branch in masquer- 

 ade ; queer thorns, 88 ; a sudden 

 disappearance ; animated thorns ; 

 like a covey of quails, 8g ; like 

 "Bob White," go; singular agil- 

 ity; queer anatomy; always ready 

 for flight, gi; fondness for locust 

 and oak-trees, simulating the color 

 and character of the branches, g2 ; 

 manner of sitting on the branches, 

 g3 ; always headed towards the 

 top; tiny, tufts of cotton, 94; color 

 and size of the tufts; a mere frothy 

 shell ; a riddle, g5 ; its relations, 

 96; an investigation, 97; its tech- 

 nique, 98 ; aerated cement ; froth- 

 house builder, gg; period of hatch- 

 ing, 100 ; a house for the winter ; 

 not a wanderer, loi. 



Ragged Orchid (Z/. lacera), 200. 

 " Rattlesnake-plantain," 213. 

 Rudbeckia hirta, cone-flower, 138. 



Sage (Salvia officinalis), strange 

 curved stamen, lig ; nature's ar- 

 rangement, 112. 



Salvia, its welcome to the bee, 117. 



Self-fertilization, 141. 



Sheep-spit, 80. 



Showy orchid (H. orbicularis), 194. 



Snorting war-horse, 18. 



Solitude, the pleasures of, 3. 



"Solomon's ant," 152. 



Sfectabilis, orchid, 182 ; its favorite 

 haunt, ig5. 



Spiders, agalena, epeira, argiope, 8 ; 

 a two years' span, 7 ; a silken vor- 

 tex ; miscellaneous food, 8. 



Spiranthes, " Lady's-tresses," 218. 



Sprengel, Christian Conrad: — In- 

 spiration from the wild geranium, 

 108 ; on the mystery of color, 112 ; 

 theory of fertilization ; a poser to 

 Linnaeus, 113 ; his wrong theory, 

 IT4 ; divining half the truth, 176 ; 

 assumption disproved, 178. 



Spume-bearer {Aprophora), its dom- 

 icile of suds ; wonderful power of 

 jumping, 82. 



Starling ; dispossessing woodpecker 

 from nest, 43. 



Studio Company : — " Tumultuous 

 privacy"; contested territory; 

 snickering squirrels, 4 ; selected 

 food ; unsymmetrical carpentry ; 

 drone of bees ; carol of birds ; 

 flurry of swifts ; accompaniments 

 to my toil, 5 ; wild fox ; pet chip- 

 monk ; pet toad ; his lightning 

 tongue ; home in a bowl, 6 ; an 

 old friend, g. 



Summer yellow-bird (Mnio-tiltidce), 



47- 

 Sweet-pogonia {P. ophioglossoides), 



145- 

 Swift, Jonathan, on parasites, 44. 



Tennyson, quoted, 24. 



' ' The Secrets of Nature in Forms 

 and Fertilization of Flowers 

 Discovered," Sprengel's work, 

 113. 



