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Show Madder colours the bones of young :~nl!nal s 38 Colours of animals ferve to conceal them 38 \Varm bathing retards old :tf;e M.tle flowers of Vallifneria detach thern-felves from the plant, and float to the female ones Air in the cells of plants, its various ules llow Mr. Day probably loft his life in h1~ div ing (h ip Air-bladders of fi fh ~tar-gelly is voided by Herons Intoxicating mufhrooms Mufluooms grow \\ithout li ght, and ap-proach to animal nature . See~s of Tilbndfia fl y on long threacls, bke fptders on the go!famc1· Account of cotton mills J nvention of letters, fi gure~, crntcl1ets Mrs. Delany's and Mrs. North's papergardens The horologe of Flora The white petals of Helleboms niger b ecome firll: red, and then chang~ into a 39 41 43 43 43 65 66 green calyx 69 Berries of Menifpennum intoxicate fi(h 7 r E flects of opium 74 Frontifl'iece by Mifs Crewe 75 Petals of Ciflus and Oenanthc continue but a few hours 75 Method of colleCl:ing the gum from Cif-tus by leathern thonos 76 Difcovery of the h<trk · 79 Foxglove how ufcd tn dropfics 83 Biflwp of Marfci llcs and Lord Mayor of Londo;! . Superflitious ufe~ of plants, the divining r oc!, animal magnetifm ~ ntox ication of the P yth ian Pricflffs, po1fon from Laurd leaves, and from Cher- 94- ry kernels 96 Sleep confifls in the abolition of volun-tary power; night-mare explained 98 Indian ficr etnits nencler cords from its fummit 99 Cave of Thor in Derbyfhire, and fubterraneous rivers explained The capfule of the Geranium mokes an hygrometer; B::~rley creeps out of a barn 0r. Rdgeworth's creeping hygrometer I lower of f raxinella fl afhes on the apl >r<Jach of a candle ~-fll.ntia l oils narcotic, poifonons, deletenon~ to mfeds Dew-drops from Mancinella bl ifler the lkn Ufes of poifonous juices in the vegetable fCOn<)Jny T he frag rance of plants a part of their defence The !linn.· and poifon of a nettle Vapour from Lobelia fnffocativc · unwhuldomnefs of petfumed hair-pow'der IOO 1 0 2 102 106 108 Ruins of Palmira The poifon-trce of Java Tulip-roots die annually Hyacinth and Rannncnlus roots Vegetable contert for air and light Some voluble ll:ems turn E. S. W. and others W. S. E. Tops of white bryony as grateful as afparaO'US Ferme ntation converts fugar into fpirit, food into poifon Fable of Prometheus applied to dramdrinkers Cyclamen hurics its feeds and trifolium fu bterrancutn Pits du g- to receive the dead in the plague Lakes of America contifl of frefl1 water The feeds of Cafli.1 all(\ lome others arc carried from America, and thrown on the coafls of Norway and Scotl.tnd Of the gulph flream \ Vonderfu I change predi Cted in the gnl ph of Mexico In the flowers of Cactus grandifloru s and Cill:us fome of the !lamens arc perpe tually ben t to the pi11il Nyt1anthes and others are only frogrant in the night; Cucurbita lage naria cloles when the fun fhines on it Tropeolum, nafturtian, emits fparks in 108 I 10 I 12 I 13 117 I!8 11 9 I20 121 123 123 the twilight 144- NeC:tary on its calyx 14-5 Phofphorcfcent li g hts in the evening· 14-5 Hot embers eaten by bull -frogs 1.1-5 Long filaments of g ra!lh, the c:lUfe of bad feed wheat Chinefe hemp grew in England above fourteen fee t in five months Roots of fnow-clrop and hyacinth infipid like orchis Orchis will ripen its feeds if the new bu lb be cut oft' Proliferous flowers The wax on the candle-berry myrtle faid to be macle by infects The warm fprings of Matlock produced by the conrlenfation of ll:eam raifed from great clept hs by fi.t bterranean fires Air feparated from water by the attrac-tion of points tO wate r being lefs than that of the parti cles of water to each other Minu te divifion of fub-aquatic leaves \Vater-crefs and other aquatic plan ts inhabit all c- limates Bntomus efcu lent; Lotus of Egyp t; Nympha::a Orymum coverefl ~ith fait every night Salt a remote cau(e of fcrophula, ami immediate caule of fea-fcmvy Coloured fparha of Arum, and blot c hed leave. , if they ferve the purpofc of a colou red petal Tltlip-roots wi1h a red cuticle produce red fiowcfs 1 53 r 57 I 57 1 59 I 59 199 ] O f vegetable mules the internal parts, as thofe of fru.:l:ifica tion, refemblc the female parent; and the external parts the male one 164 The fame occurs in animal mules, as the common mule and the hinnu , and in fl1ecp r65 The wind called Har. nattan from volcanic eruptions; Come epidemic coughs or influenza have the fame origin r66 Fi fh killed in the lea by dry- fummers in Alia I67 Hedyfarum gyrans pe rpetually moves its leaves like the refpira110n of animals 168 Plants po!Iefs a voluntary power of mo-tion r68 Loud cracks from ice-mountains ex- ' plaincd qo Mufchus corallinus ve~etates below the fnow, where the heat is always about 40. I 71 ~i ck g rowth of vegetables in northern latitudes after the folution of the fnow s explained 171 The Rail Deeps in the fnow 17 1 Confava regagropila rolls about the bottom of lakes 172. Lycoperdon tuber, truffle, requ ires no light I73 Account of caprification I '/4- Fi gs WOUIHled with a flraw, and pears and piLunbs wounded by infects, ripen fooncr, and become fweeter q 5 Female figs clofed on all fides, fuppofed to be monflcrs 17 5 Bafaltic columns produced by volcanos !hewn hy their form 177 Byffus floats on the fea in the day, and finks in the ni ght 177 Confcrva polymorpha twice changes its colour and its form q8 Some feed-veffels and feeds refemble in-feCts q8 Individuality of fl owers not defiroyed by the number of males or females which they contain 179 Trees arc fw:mns of buds, which are individual s. 1 So Inde.\' of the N ames of the Plants. AnoNis - - - - 179 Carlina - - - - - 75 Aega.gropila qo Caryophy'llus 164 A'lcea 8 Caf!ia 123 Amary'llis x6 Cereus I-4-2 Anemone - - - - 33 Chondr1lla 21 Anthoxanthum - - - - 10 C.hunda t66 Arum 162 Cinchona 78 Avena 147 Circ<ea 94 Clfl:us 75 B(tromctz 29 Cocculus 71 Bellis 152 Colchicum 22 Byffus 1 77 Collinf6nia 4 Conferva qo, .~~ ,, CaCI:us 1 1~6 Cupreffus 9 Calendula 66 Curcuma 7 Callltrichc 4 Cufcuta - - - - - - - 117 C5.nna 3 Cy'clamen 121 Cannabis 149 Cypcrus - - - - - - - 62 - - - - - Capri-fk us I74 |
