INDEX 



605 



All numbers refer to pages, heavy type indicating illustrations. 



Shepherd's Purse, 556 

 Shield-lichen Family: Iceland 



moss, 169 

 Shingles, 270 

 Shipbuilding, 256, 270 

 Ships, 259 

 Ships' knees, 270 

 Shoe-lasts, 263 

 Shoemaker's wax, 288 

 Shoe-pegs, 245, 263 

 Shoe-soles, 287 

 Shoes, 282; wooden, 263 

 Shoot, 323 

 Shoot-segment, 323 

 Shoots, kinds of: runners, 92; spur, 



271 

 Showbill type, 263 

 Showy Ladies' Slipper, 220 

 Shrub, 36, 306, 333 

 Siamese Gamboge-tree, 290, 291 

 Sigillaria, 547 



Sigillaria, Giant Club-mosses 

 Silica in epidermis, 542; in grains, 



31 

 Silique, 363 

 Silk, artificial, 224, 228; of maize, 



24 

 Silk-cotton Family: cocoa, 107, 



108; StercuUa Family, 399 

 Silkworm food, 303 

 Simple inflorescence, 352; leaves, 



339, 342; pistil, 347 

 Sinapis albn, White Mustard 

 Sinker, 211 



Size of plants, enormous, 575 

 Skiffs, 260 

 Shppery Elm, 165 

 Smokeless fuel, 300, 301; powder, 



224 

 Smooth Sago Palm, 109 

 Snow-on-the-mountain, 203, 207, 



217 

 Snuff, 185 

 Soap, yellow, 288 

 Soap-berry Order, 399 

 Soaps, 288, 295, 296 

 Socrates, poisoning of, 194 

 Soda in grains, 31 

 Soda water mixtures, 150 

 Soft pine, 270; soap, 296 

 Soil bacteria, 494 

 Soil-binders, 303 



Soil-building by lichens, 506 



Soil-makers, 3fJ4 



Solanaceo!, Nightshade Family 



Solanum Dulcamara, Bitter- 

 sweet 

 Lycopersicinn, Tomato 

 Mdongena, Egg Plant 

 nigrum, Black Nightshade 

 tuberosum, White Potato 



Solar system, 464 



Soldering flux, 288 



Soles, 280 



Solid bulb, 336 



Solitary flowers, 345, 352 



Solvents, 296 



Soredium, 506, 508 



Sorghums, 236 



Sorus, 179 



Sounding-boards, 270 



Sour Cherr_y, 90 



Southern Moss, 232, 234 



Souvenirs, 268 



Spadix, 388 



Spars, 243, 270 



Spathe, 38S 



iSpathiflorir, Arum Order 



Speaking tubes, 287 



Spearmint, 137, 139, 170, 177, 338; 

 oil, 297 



Special creation, 429 



Species, 4, 428; as units of, cla,ssi- 

 fication, 431 ; destruction of 432; 

 fixity of, 429, 430; limits of, 431; 

 origin of, 441 



Spermagone, 505 



Spermatophyta, 8 



iSpermalophyla , Seed-plant Divi- 

 sion 



Spermatophytes, 393, 394, 396, 

 397 



Spermatozoid, 515, 517, 627 



Sphagmwea, Peat -moss Family 



Sphagnum spp. Peat Moss , 



Sphenophyllum cuneifoli um, 

 Wedge-leaf 



Sphenopteris, Climbing-ferns 



Spicate inflorescence, 373 



Spices, 128, 302; danger of, 130, 

 133; history of, 137 



Spiderwort Familv, 397 



Spike, 373 



Spikelet, 13 



