Part 24

Preservation of food by wasps, 256.

Primrose ash, 73.

Professor of biology, 70.

"Professor Wiggler," what a florist's window suggested; the lilac-bush his home, 73; his characteristics, 74; how he came to be named; bringing him up by hand, 75; lively capers, 76; five changes of clothes; voracious feeding, 77; how he retains his head-shells, 78; digging out a home, 79; home completed; skilful concealment; what comes from the cocoon, 81; burrowing habits, 82.

Puff-balls, 136; its purple cloud, 136; rapid change of substance; its cloud mass of reproductive atoms, 137; same results from mushrooms and toadstools, 138.

Pungent odors, 132.

"Quaker." See Grasshopper.

"Racer," 85.

Red Admiral. See Butterflies.

"Red-hot child of nature," 92, 96.

Redstart, 176.

Red-tailed hawk, 152, 153.

Riddles in flowers, 202; curious specimens; botanists and philosophers, 204; pollen-carrying, 207; galaxy of white or blue stars, 208; variety of construction, 209; solving the riddle, 211.

Riley, C. V., quoted, 254.

"Robin's pin-cushion," 43.

Roland for an Oliver, 59.

Roots, becoming stems and bearing leaves, 87.

Rose garden, 126.

Roses, blue, 45, 46; green, 187.

Rosy moth, 85.

Rowen-field, 116, 218.

Sabbath sanctuary bouquet, 26.

Sacred "scarabaeus," emblem of immortality, 53.

Sage blossom, its welcome to the bee, 221.

Sand-hornet:--Prospecting for game, 249; the capture, 250; manner of transporting its prey, 251; its color and terrible sting, 252; not to be trifled with; its home in the sand-bank, 253; deposits its egg and leaves, 254; its mysterious poison, 256.

Scrophularia, figwort, 28.

Semicolon. See Butterflies.

Sheep-spit, 84.