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INDEX 



All numbers refer to pages, heavy type indicating illustrations. 



cucumber, 82, 83; hubbard 

 squash, 81; long white squash 

 79; muskmelon, 95; pumpkin 



. 76, 77, 78; scallop squash, 80 

 summer crook-neck squash, 79 

 turban squash, 81; vegetable 

 sponge, 240; watermelon, 96 

 winter crook-neck squash, 81, 

 82 



Gourd Order, 401 



Grains (see also Cereals) 11, 12; 

 earliest use, 20; in ancient times, 

 17 



Gramina, Grasses 



(Iraminales, Grass Order 



Omminece, Grass Family 



Grape, European, 88, 121, 124; 

 northern fox, 88, 93, 125; pulp, 

 114; sugar, 31 



Grape Desmid, 477, 479 



Grape Family, 399: grapes, 93 



Grape-fern, 532, 633 



Grapes, 88, 93, 121, 157 



Grasses, 11, 311 



Grass Family, 387, 397, 422, 423: 

 bamboo, 239; barley, common, 

 21 ; barley, six-rowed, 22 ; Barley, 

 two-rowed, 22; broom-corn, 236; 

 maize, 23, 24; oat, 12, 13, 14; 

 rice, 16, 17; rye, 18; sugar- 

 cane, 106; wheat, 19, 20 



Grass Order, 388, 397, 422, 423 



Gravitation and evolution, 441 



(ireek origin of terms, 313 



Green Alga;, 476, 508 



Growing-points, 254 



Growth, 561, 572; a slow behavior, 

 442 



Guitars, 245, 270 



Gum, 32, 287 



Gam arable, 163, 164 



Gum Arabic Tree, 163, 163, 366, 

 408, 409 



Gum-resins, 287 



Gum tragacanth, 164 



Guncotton, 224, 228 



Gunny bagging, 223 



Gunpowder, 300 



fiun-stocks, 201, 245 



Gutta-jjercha, 280, 285 



(lymiiosprriiur, Nak(>d-seed Class 



Gymnospermous gyineciuin, 392 



Gymnosperms, 397, 550 

 GyncEcium, 346; angiospermous, 



392; gymnospermous, 392; 



naked-seeded, 392 



Habit of plant, 359 

 Habits, 572 

 Hiomatein, 292 

 Ha;matoxylin, 292 

 HiEinaloxylon campecheanum, Log- 

 wood-tree 

 Hair-like outgrowths, 538 

 Half-inferior ovary, 350 

 Hamamelidacece, Witch-hazel Fam- 



ily 

 Hamamelis virginica, Witch-hazel 

 Hames, 244 

 Hammocks, 223 

 Hampers, 223 

 Handles, 245, 280, 284 

 Hard, pine, 270; rubber, 2S4;soap, 



296 

 Harmful plants, 302 

 Harness, 244, 259, 260 

 Hashish, 181 

 Hat linings, 280 

 Hats, 22:3, 238; cliip, 241; straw, 



235 

 Haustorium, 499 

 Hay Bacillus, 492 

 Hazel, 373, 412, 413 

 Hazelnut, 36 

 Head, 373; of grain, 11 

 Heart- wood, 246 

 Heath Family, 378, 401, 416, 417: 



mountain laurel, 202; sheep 



laurel, 202; wintergreen, 148 

 Heath Order, 379, 401, 416, 417 

 Heating, 297 

 Helianthus tuhernsus, Jerusalem 



Artichoke 

 Heliopsis scabra, Oxeye 

 Hdleborus niger, Christmas Rose 

 HtiiiunthodadiiicccF, Thread-weed 



Family 

 Hemlock, 273, 294, 392, 426, 427; 



poison, 194, 195, 209, 370; water, 



193, 370; wood, 271 

 Hemp, 224, 230 

 Hemp, Indian, 193 

 ll(-mp, Manila, 232, 233 

 Hfimlicn; Liverworts 



