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