Part 25

Singular mimic fruit, 42.

Small speckled beetle, 86.

Smilax, 188.

Snake expert, 67.

Snake stories, 65.

Snake-spit, 84, 85.

Snapping beetle. See Beetles.

"Snowin' 'pider-webs," 113.

Sphinx caterpillar (Chaerocampa pampenatrix) with his burden, 241, 242; the mischief-maker (Microgaster), 245.

Spice-bush, 131, 132.

Spiders, webs one hundred feet long; autumn best time for observation, 106; precocious baby spiders; building a bridge, 108; moored by guy threads, 110; ballooning, 112; at sea, 113.

Sponge-ball, commonly known as Bedegnar, 43.

Sprengel, 166, 202, 206.

"Spume-bearer" (Aphrophora), 89; allied to bugs; his aerated bath; graduation from his surroundings, 87; his color and size; his alertness, 88; time of egg-laying and hatching; power of leaping, 89; no secret process of making suds; sun's evaporation necessitates continuous additions, 90.

Squirrel, 153.

Statue of Liberty, 108.

Stems assuming the functions of roots, 187.

Summer meadows, 83.

Sweetbrier sponge, 40.

Sweet-pea, 188.

Tachina, a parasitic fly, 200.

Tendrils, what they are; a stem or modified root, 187; reaching for conquest, 188; not a special or primal organ, 189; method of contraction, 191; the reverse twist, its function, 192; singular botanical prank, 194.

Thelaphora caerulea, fox-fire, 22.

Tiger-beetle, wonderful speed and agility of, 2.

Toad-spit, 84.

Toadstools, 19, 138.

Trailing cobwebs, 113.

True locust, the, 232.