CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



HOME PLANTS AND THEIR WAYS. page 



Prelude to the Forest Hymn Bryant. 1 



The Pride of New England Atlantic Monthly. 2 



How Plants Travel M. Scheie Be Vere. 6 



Twining Plants Francis Darwin. 1 1 



Hook-Climbers Francis Darwin. 1 5 



The Hospitality of Plants , M. Scheie Be Vere. 25 



The Rhodora Emerson. 30 



PART II. 



STRANGE PLANTS AND THEIR WATS. 



The Builder's Tree of China World of Wonders. 31 



The Scholar's Plant of Egypt World of Wonders. 32 



A Migratory Rose Chambers's Journal. 35 



Refreshment-Trees 39 



The Monarch of African Forests Figuier. 42 



The Sacred Tree of India , 45 



The Eucalyptus 48 



The Sensitive-Plant Shelley. 52 



PART III. 



LOW LIFE IN THE SEA. 



Animated Jellies World of Wonders. 54 



Flowers of the Sea Rev. Samuel Lockwood. 57 



