LIST OF THE ENGRAVINGS. 



No. of Fig. 



219. Spathe of a Palm-tree serving as a Bath for a Cbild, 



220. Mandragora with its Rootlets in Water, Living, 



221. Mandragora with its Rootlets in Dry Sand, Dying, 



222. Ice-plant — Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, 



223. Absorption by the Leaves, ..... 



224. Force of Vegetable Circulation and Absorption, 



225. Scene in North America— Collecting the Sap of the Sugar-maple, 



226. The Wine-tree or Wine-bearing Sago-palm — Sagus vinifera, 



227. Respiration of Plants. Disengagement of Oxygen under Water, 



228. Discovery of the Transpiration of Plants, . 



229. Transpiration in Plants, ..... 



230. Transpiration in the Sunflower, .... 



231. Edible Arum — Colocasia esculenta, 



232. The Weeping-tree — Ccesalpinia phiviosa, . 



233. Pitcher-plant — Nepenthes distillatoria, 



234. The Amphora Plant — Sarracenia purpurea, 



235. Transpiration of Leaves, ..... 



236. Stag's-horn covered by the growth of Layers of Wood, 



237. Gigantic Lycoperdon or Putf-ball, 



238. The Tapioca Plant — Manihot utilissima, 



239. Manna-tree — Fraxinus onius, and Manna-gathering in Sicily, 



240. Scene in the Andes. Wax-palm — Ceroxyloti andicola, 



241. Combuation of the Vapiours of Bastard Dittauj', 



242. The Gutta-percha Tree — Isonandra giMa, 



243. Thyrsus of Flowers of the Yellow Cinchona, 



244. Cinnamon-tree — Laurus Cinnamomum, 



245. Nutmeg-tree — Myristica moschaCa, .... 



246. Extracting Milk from the Cow-tree, .... 



247. Pepper-plant — Piper nigrum, ..... 



248. The Camphor-tree or Camphor-laurel — Laurus Campkora, 



249. Palmated Rhubarb — Rheum paJmutum, 



250. Sensitive Plant Asleep and Awake — Mimosa piidica, 



251. The Mandrake — Atropa Mandragora, 



252. The (Oscillating Desmodia — Desmodia oscillans, . 



253. Veous' Flytrap — Diomxa museipula, .... 



254. The Poison-tree or Upas of .Java, and Flower of the Eafflesia, 



255. Influence of Insects upon the Fecundation of Flowers, 



256. Nuptials of the Spiral Vallisneria — Vallisneria spiralis. 



257. Nuptials of the Common Utricularia — Utricularia vulgaris. 



258. Branch of the ITtricularia laden with its Hydrostatic Vesicu 



259. Forest of Mangroves, ....... 



260. Germination of an Arundo iiidica, .... 



261. Roots Lighted from below and directing themselves toward 



262. Forest of Palm-trees on the Banks of the Nile, . 



263. Virgin Forest in the Equatorial Regions, . 



264. Arborescent Ferus from the Forests of New Zealand, 



265. Chapel Oak in Normandy, ...... 



266. The Great Chestnut-tree of Mount Etna, called of a Hund 



267. Gigantic Cedar of California — Wellingtonia gigantca, 



268. The Lime-tree of the Battle of Morat, . ' . 



269. Ciigautic Baobab of the African Forests, 



270. Dragon's-blood Tree of the Island of Teneriffe, . 



271. Warty "Soaioa—Treraella mesenterica. 



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