Index 



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Overgrowth of one mandible in birds, 237, 446. 

 Owl nesting on the ground, 453. 

 Oxlip, 580. 



Panus stypticus, 454. 



Paper shells, 184. 



Parasitism stimulating growth, 58. 



Parasol fungus, 190. 



Parents' age and offspring, 423. 



Parker, Kitchen, on mammalian descent, 285. 



Parmentier (painter), 240. 



Peach leaf fungus, 61, 111. 



Peapods, 208, 210. 



Peat mosses of Denmark, 281. 



Pedantry, Professor Miall, on, 339. 



Peniophora chrysanthemi, 68 ; incarnata, 410. 



Peridermium strobi, 367. 



Peschell, 39, 40. 



Pewter, 463. 



Peziza azcrantia, 268 ; coccinea, 454 ; reticulata, 577 ; venosa, 577 ; 



Willkommii, 369. 

 Phallus impudicus, 112. 



Phragmidium bulbosum, ill', sub-corticatum, m. 

 Phyllosticta cornicola, ill. 

 Pigmy flints, 391. 



Pigs, 47 ; skull of, 66, 67 ; one-hoofed breed, 439. 



Pine beetle, 29. 



Pitt-Rivers, General. 



Plague and fleas, 405 ; in India, 228. 



Plane tree, 411 ; leaves, 324; seed vessels of, 548. 



Plant Life in London Squares, 72, 555. 



Plants, Common seaside, 94. 



Platinum, 467. 



Platyarthrus Hoffmanseggii, 57. 

 Pollinia of the bee orchis, 108. 

 "Polygamous," 171. 



Polyporus betulinus, 505 ; nodulosis, 363 ; sulphureus, 266, 485 ; 



versicolor, 454. 

 Poplar leaves, 362. 

 Porcupines, 26. 



Portraits illustrating character and descent, 252 ; early English painters, 239 ; 



National Gallery, 226, 241, 257, 307, 343, 401. 

 Potato disease, 194, 223, 276, 462. 

 Precocity following slow development, 553. 



Prehistoric times, in Britain, 4, 172, 475-478; Denmark, 281 ; synopsis, 522. 



Price, John, 466. 



" Prior's Kitty," 241. 



" Prognathous," 10. 



Prongbuck, 16. 



