INDEX. 



A 



Acacia, false, 256. Triple thorned^ or honey -locust, 258. 



Jeer negundo, white, or ash-leaved maple, 259. J. rubrumi 

 scarle:, ib. A. saccharinunif sugar maple, ib. 



JEsculus paviUi scarlet flowering horse chesnut, 261. JE, 

 Jia'va, yellow flowering, 262. JS>- alba, white, ib. JE, 

 spicata, with white spiked ffowei^, ib. JE. hippocastanum, 

 ib. 



Agrostis stricta, herd -grass, 219. 



Ale-iuifi^ or old-wife fish, 362- 

 Alum spring, near Falmouth, in Virginia, A&t,- 

 AnagalUs arve?isis, pimpernel, 276. 

 Angelica-tree, 295. 



Animals, 305. Their magnitude compared with those of 



Europe, 306. 

 Antimony, 424. 



Antiquity of the Continent, proofs of the, 119. 



Ar alia 'Spinas a, angelica-tree, 295. A. racemosa, spikenard, 



ib. A. nedicaulis, sarsaparilla, 296. A. hispida, ib. 

 Ararat, or Pilot mountain, 451. 



Arch, a beautiful, formed by a stream of water passing- 

 through a rock, 446. 



Aristolochia serpentaria, snake -root, 287. A., sipho^ pipe* 

 vine, 288. 



ArwiL esculentum, two varieties of, 297. 



Arundo gigantea et tecta, cane, 222. 



Asbestos^ varieties of, 405. 



Asclepias decumbens, butterfly weed, 282. A. syriaca, swal- 

 low wort, 287. 

 Aspect (f 'the Country, 5. 

 Atlantic Coast ^ 12. 



Anxxna Carolinian^y oat-gi-ass, 222. A, elatlor, tdM meadow 

 oats, 224. 



