404 
Down, 53, 56, 320 
Dr. Ogle, 80 
Drosera, 300 
Dung-flies, 33 
Dyer (Thistleton), quoted, 62, 
333, 334, 357 
East Indian nettle, 329 
Eel-grass. 31 
Elaborated sap, 395 
Elasticity of tendrils, 245 
Elm, 53, 61, 62, 74 
Elms, 50, 54, 75 
Embryo-sac, 27 
Empty glumes, 162 
English daisy, 347 
Evanescence of grass-flowers, 
173 
Evening lychnis, 225 
Evening primrose, 213 
Evening primrose, garden, 214 
Evening primroses, 227, 229 
Evergreen woods: 
flowers of, 268 
character of, 268 
Evolution, 86 
Exalbuminous, 119 
Fall of the leaf, 366, 367, 368 
Falling of needle-like leaves, 
274 
Ferns, 246 
Fern-spores, 247 
Fern-spores, germination 
249, 250 
Fertilization of the coontie, 295 
Fibro-vascular bundle, 128, 129 
Fibro-vascular bundles, open, 
134 
Fibro-vascular bundles of Di- 
cotyledons, 133, 134 
Fibro-vascular bundles of Mo- 
nocotyledons, 130, 159 
Fir, 274, 282 
Firs, 299 
First-born of flowering plants, 
270 
First flowers in the world, 156, 
235 
Flags, cat-tail, 124 
Flag, sweet, 143 
of, 
Index 
Flax, 332 
Flaxseed, 119 
Flies: 
carrion and dung, 33 
big, 32 
smaller, 33 
Floret, 40, 43 
Florets, 39. 43, 44, 45 
Flower-clock, 228, 229 
of De Candolle, 230 
of Linnzus, 231 
Flower: 
of death, 353, 355 
of immortality, 354, 355 
perfect, 77 
pistillate, 77 
staminate, 77 
tendrils, 243 
Flowering fern, 265 
Flowering glumes, 164, 165 
Flowering plants, 248 
Flowerless plants, 249 
Flowers: 
imperfect, 66 
naked, 66 
of life, 355 
of the evergreen woods, 268 
of the nettle, 330, 331 
Folding creases of young leaves, 
56 
Foliage: 
floating, 112 
submerged, 112, 133 
of parasites, 98 
Forest-trees, 64 
Forests of Maine and Canada, 
272 
Formic acid, 329 
Fraxinus excelsior, 77 
Fronds, 259 
Fruit as defined in botany, 46 
Fuchsia, 139 
Fungi, 99 
Funkia Japonica, 204 
Garden evening primrose, 214 
Generative cell, 293, 294 
Generative -clis, of pine pollen, 
294 
Georgia yucca, 212 
Geranium, rose, 126 
