CONTENTS

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[A Naturalist's Boyhood]xi
[The Story of the Floundering Beetle]1
[Fox-fire]11
[A Homely Weed with Interesting Flowers]24
[Two Fairy Sponges]34
[Green Pansies]44
[Mr. and Mrs. Tumble-bug]53
[Those Horse-hair Snakes]64
["Professor Wiggler"]72
["Cow-spit, Snake-spit, and Frog-spit"]83
[The Paper Wasp and His Doings]91
[The Spider's Span]104
[Ballooning Spiders]112
[The Lace-wing Fly]122
[The Perfumed Beetle]130
[Mushroom Spore-prints]136
[Some Curious Cocoons]145
[Nettle-leaf Tent-builders]154
[The Evening Primrose]163
[The Dandelion Burglar]171
[The Troubles of the House-fly]178
[Tendrils]185
[A Strange Story of a Grasshopper]195
[Riddles in Flowers]202
[Luck in Clovers]213
[Barberry Manners]221
[A Woolly Flock]230
["What Ails Him?"]238
[The Cicada's Last Song]246
[Index]257

List of Designs

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[William Hamilton Gibson]Frontispiece
[Initial]xi
[Initial. Buttercup Leaves]1
[Three Views of a Helpless Beetle]2
[Down Among the Buttercup Leaves]3
[An Adventurous Baby]6
[The Adopted Home]9
[Initial. Fox-fire and Fungus]11
[A Luminous Fragment]13
[Three Specimens by Day]15
[Three Specimens by Night]15
[A Fox-fire Bugaboo]17
[The Bugaboo by Daylight]21
[Initial. The Figwort]24
[A Flower with Three Welcomes]29
[Sipping the Nectar. Fig 1.]31
[In Flight with Pollen. Fig. 2.]31
[Transferring the Pollen to Stigma. Fig. 3.]32
[Fifth Day—Pod Enlarging]32
[Singular Method of Branching and Flowering]33
[Initial]34
[The Rose Mischief-maker]35
[The Fairy Using Her Magic Wand]36
[The Elfin Sponge of the Oak]39
[The Real Fairy of the Oak Sponge]40
[The Elfin Sponge of the Brier Rose]42
[The Inhabited Rose Sponge]43
[Initial. Pansies]44
[The Materials]47
[Making a Whole Plant Green]51
[A Tumbler Concealed Near By]52
[Initial. The Sacred Scarabæus]53
[Mr. and Mrs. Tumble-bug Rolling the Ball]57
[Sinking the Ball]61
[Young Tumble-bug Digging out from His Dungeon]63
[Initial]64
[Amos]66
[Dangerous Ground for Grasshoppers and Crickets]69
[Busy Grasshoppers]71
[Initial. Lilacs]72
["Professor Wiggler" at Home]74
[The Lilac Twig in June]75
[Tunnelling the Twig]80
["Professor Wiggler" Moth]81
[Initial. Grasses and Weeds]83
[The Home of the "Spume-bearer"]87
[The Real Culprits]90
[Initial. A Nest of the Paper Wasp]91
[A Wolf in the Fold]95
[He was Hanging Head Downward]99
[Off for the Paper Nest]101
[Initial. Brooklyn Bridge]104
[Bridging the Brook]107
[From Tree to Tree]109
[Initial. Preparing for Flight]112
[Draped in the Glittering Meshes]116
[Spider-egg Cocoon]120
[Initial. The Lace-wing Fly]122
[The Wolf in the Fold]125
[A Tempting Aphis Brood]127
[Where the Aphides Swarm]128
[Initial. A Woodland Path]130
[The Perfumed Beetles]133
[Initial. A Spore-print]136
[Spore Surface of a Polyporus]139
[Spore Surface of a Polygaric]139
[Method of Making Spore-prints]141
[Spore-print of a Boletus]143
[Initial. A Nocturnal Bird]145
[From a Correspondent]147
[The Contents of the Cocoon]149
[Where the Cocoon Came From]150
["The Owl on Muffled Wing"]152
[Initial. Nettles]154
[Leaf-tents of the "Comma" Caterpillar]157
[A Design for a Jeweller]160
[Initial. The Evening Primrose]163
[Two Kinds of Buds]166
[The Evening Primrose]167
["The Worm i' the Bud"]168
[The Chrysalis and its Moth]169
[The Substitute for the Bud]170
[Initial. Dandelions]171
[The Nest-builder]175
[Initial. A Fly Model]178
[An Interrupted Toilet]179
[An Episode of Fly time]182
[A Victim of Fly Fungus]184
[Initial. Sweet-peas]185
[An Impossible and Real Tendril]186
[Grape Tendrils Evolved from Blossoms]188
[The Star Cucumber and its Compound Tendrils]190
[The Prank of a Tendril]193
[Initial. An Impaled "Quaker"]195
[The Haunt of the Grasshopper]197
[The Birth of the Parasites]200
[The Two-formed Flowers]202
[Puzzling Forms and Faces]203
[A. Fertilization of a Flower, as Believed by Grew and Linnæus]206
[B. Linnæus's Idea was Wrong]206
[C. and D. What Sprengel did not Explain]207
[The Way in which the Flower is Fertilized]210
[Initial. Clover Leaves]213
[A Rowen Field]217
[A Five-Leaved Specimen]219
[Sleeping Clover]220
[Initial. A Barberry Branch]221
["In Arching Bowers"]225
[Barberry Blossoms, Showing Sepals and Petals Open. Fig. 1]226
[Barberry Blossoms, Showing the Approach of the Bee. Fig. 2]228
[Initial. A Woolly Flock]230
[One of the Flock Magnified]233
[A Winged Aphis]235
[Initial. Woodbine Branch and Sphinx Caterpillar]238
[What Happened the Next Day]241
[What He Should Have Become]244
[The Mischief-Maker]245
[Initial. Bearing Off the Prey]246
[A Section of the Sand-bank]252
[In the Dungeon]255