FLOWER-GARDEN. 



INDEX. 



GALEOBDOLON. 



451 



1 



Flower-garden, earliest known, in Eu- 

 rope, ii. 217. 

 Flowers, capricious transmission of 

 colour- varieties in, ii. 20-21 ; tendency 

 to uniformity in striped, ii. 70 ; scorch- 

 ing of, dependent on colour, ii. 229 ; 

 change in, caused by conditions of life, 

 ii. 273; rudimentary, ii. 316; relative 

 position of, to the axis, ii. 345. 



Fcetation, abdominal, ii. 294. 



Foley, Mr., wild varieties of pears, ii. 

 260. 



Foliage, inherited peculiarities of, i. 362 ; 

 variegation, of, i. 366; bud-variation 

 in, i. 382-384. 



Food, influence of, on the pig, i. 72 ; on 

 cattle, i. 91 ; excess of, a cause of va- 

 riability, ii. 257. 



Forbes, D., on Chilian sheep, i. 95 ; on 

 the horses of Spain, Chili, and the 

 Pampas, i. 52. 



Formica rufa, ii. 251. 



Fortune, E., sterility of the sweet potato 

 in China, ii. 169 ; development of axil- 

 lary bulbs in the yam, ibid. 



Fowl, common, breeds of, i. 225-230; 

 supposed plurality of origin, i. 230 ; 

 early history of, i. 231-233; causes 

 of production of breeds of, i. 233; 

 origin of from Gallus banhiva, i. 236- 

 239, 245 ; feral, notices of, i. 237-238 ; 

 reversion and analogous variation in, 

 i. 239-246, ii. 35, 38, 39, 40, 349, 350 ; 

 " cuckoo " sub-breeds of, i. 244 ; history 

 of, i. 246-247 ; structural characters of, 

 i. 247-250 ; sexual peculiarities of, i. 

 251-257, ii. 74 ; external differences of, 

 i. 257-260; differences of breeds of, 

 from G. banhiva, i. 260; osteological 

 characters of, i. 260-270 ; effects of dis- 

 use of parts in, i. 270-274, ii. 298 ; feral, 

 i. 190, ii. 33 ; polydactylism in, ii. 14 ; 

 fertility of, increased by domestication^ 

 ii. 112, 167 ; sterility of, under certain 

 conditions, ii. 162 ; influence of selec- 

 tion on, ii. 196, 198, 209, 210 ; evils of 

 close interbreeding of, ii. 124-125 • 

 crossing of, ii. 95, 96, 97 ; prepotency 

 of transmission in, ii. 67 ; rudimentary 

 organs in, ii. 315; crossing of non-sitting 

 varieties of, ii. 43-44; homology of 

 wing and leg feathers in, ii. 323°- hy- 

 brids of, with pheasants and Gallus 

 bonneratii, ii. 45; black-skinned, ii. 

 209-210; black, preyed upon by 'the 

 osprey in Iceland, ii. 230; five-toed 

 mentioned by Columella, ii. 429 ; rump- 

 less, tailed chickens, produced by ii 

 31 ; Dorking, crosses of, ii. 93 ; form of 

 comb and colour of plumage in, ii. 238 • 

 game, crossing of white and black ii' 

 92; five-spurred, ii. 391; Spanish, 



liable to suffer from frost, ii. 306 ; Polish 

 peculiarities of skull of, ii. 332-333. 

 Fox, sterility of, in captivity, ii. 151. ' 

 Fox, S. Bevan, races of bees, i. 298. 

 Fox, W. Darwin, gestation of the'doo- i 

 30; "Negro" cat, i. 46; reversion 'of 

 sheep in colour, ii. 30 ; period of ges- 

 tation in the pig, i. 74 ; young of the 

 Himalayan rabbit, i. 109 ; crossing of 

 wild and domestic turkeys, i. 292 ; re- 

 version in crossed musk ducks, ii.'40 ; 

 spontaneous segregation of varieties of 

 geese, ii. 104; effects of close inter- 

 breeding upon bloodhounds, ii. 121- 

 deafness of white cats with blue eves' 

 ii. 329. 3 ' 



Foxhounds, i. 40, ii. 120. 

 Fragaria chiloensis, i. 351. 

 Frag aria collina, i. 351. 

 Fragaria dioica of Duchesne, i. 353. 

 Fragaria elatior, i. 351. 

 Fragaria grandiflora, i, 351. 

 Fragaria vesca, i. 351. 

 Fragaria virginiana, i. 351. 

 Fraxinus excelsior, i. 360, 362, ii. 19. 

 Fraxinus lentiscifolia, ii. 19. 

 Friesland cattle, probably descended 



from Bos primigenius, i. 81. 

 Frillback (pigeon), i. 155; Indian, i. 



153. 

 Fringilla ciris, ii. 154. 

 Fringilla spinus, ii. 154. 

 Frizzled fowls, i. 230 ; horses, i. 54. 

 FROg, polydactylism in the, ii. 14. 

 Fruit, seedless, ii. 168. 

 Fruit-trees, varieties of, occurring wild 



i. 310. 

 Fry, Mr., on fertile hybrid cats, i. 44 ; on 



feral fowls in Ascension, i. 238. 

 Fuchsias, origin of, i. 364 ; bud-variation 



in, i. 382. 

 Fuchsia coccinea and fulgens, twin seed 



produced by crossing, i. 391. 

 Fuegians, their superstition about killing 

 young water-fowl, i. 310; selection of 

 dogs by the, ii. 207 ; their comparative 

 estimation of dogs and old women, ii. 

 215; their power of distant vision, ii. 

 223. 

 Fungi, parasitic, ii. 284-285. 

 FcRCULA, characters and variations of the, 

 in pigeons, i. 167; alteration of, by 

 disuse, in pigeons, i. 175 ; characters 

 of, in fowls, i. 268. 

 Fusion of homologous parts, ii. 393. 



Gait, inheritance of peculiarities of, ii. 

 6. 



Galapagos Archipelago, its peculiar 



fauna and flora, i. 9. 

 Galeobdolon luteum, pelorism in, ii. 59 



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