Index 
Agave, 165, 166. 
Agrostis scabra. See Grass, 
rough hair. 
Alligators, 96-99, 112, 113. 
Animals, assumed to be made 
for man, 137, 138; man- 
eating, 138; essential to the 
cosmos, 139. 
Apricot vine, 56. 
Aspidium acrostichoides. See 
Fern, Christmas. 
Asplenium ebeneum. 
Spleenwort, ebony. 
Asplenium filix-femina, 33. 
Asters, 26, 31, 34, 46, 56. 
Athens, Georgia, 52. 
Augusta, Georgia, 54, 56. 
Azaleas, 26, 31. 
See 
Bahama islands, 181. 
Banana, 63, 64. 
Beale, Mr., 43. 
Bird neighbors, 75, 78. 
Blairsville, Georgia, 43, 44. 
Blue Ridge, 44. 
Bluebirds, 135. 
Bonaventure.burying-ground, 
66-82; oaks in, 67, 68, 69, 
73; graves of, 71, 72; Muir 
camps in, 73-78. 
Brake, common, 33. 
Brant, 135. 
Bread, importance of, 95. 
Breakers, song of, 162. 
Brier, sensitive, 18, 19. 
Briers, cat, 26, 27; in Florida 
swamps, IIS, 118, 120. 
Burkesville, Ky., 14. 
Butterflies, 68, 69. 
Butternut tree, 12. 
Cactus, 105, 135, 160. 
California, crooked route to, 
169-87; arrival in, 188; 
flowers, 189, 190, I91, 197, 
198, 206-10; the Golden 
State, 211. 
Cameron, Mr., planter, 60- 
63. 
Cape Hatteras, 183. 
Carriages, in Havana, 154. 
Cats, vegetable, 133. 
Caves, Kentucky, 7, 9, 10. 
Cedar Keys, 123-42; size of, 
133. 
Chagres River, 187. _ 
Chattahoochee River, 47, 48. 
Clinch River, 30, 31. 
Coast Range foothills, 189. 
Composite, 64, 163, 164, 197, 
208, 209. 
Cotton, an unhappy looking 
plant, 13; picking, 51. 
Coyote, 202. 
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