Part 27

Fairy rings, 250.

Fescue, spines of the hard, bearing no flowers, 77.

Fieldfare, the, 181.

Flea, the water, 215.

Flowers of plants, 52

— pleasures afforded by, 53

— use and application of, 54, 56

— natural love of, 54

— the playthings of children, 55.

Fly, the house, 151

— the biting, ibid.

— the four-spotted dragon, 192.

Flycatcher, the gray, 146.

Foxglove, 67.

Friendship between birds, instance of, 146, 147.

Frost, early, effect of on flowering plants, 276.

Fungi, beauties of, 85

— varieties of, 86

— uncertain appearance of, ibid.

— mutations of, 87

— agents of decay, 88

— propagation of, 93.

Fur of animals, 107.

Gallinaceous birds, 172.

Gamma moth, the, 210.

Ghost moth, 190.

Glaucous birthwort, 62.

Gleaning, profits of, to the poor, 244