Spider, killing a bee; a musical. Spring, sudden coming of, 160-168. Spring beauty. See Claytonia. Springs, paths leading to; their universal attractiveness; centres of greenness; symbolism of; locations of; fondness of trout for; physiology of; their mineral elements; large; as refrigerators; countries poor in; on mountains; places of worship; various kinds of; marvelous; intermittent; in the Idyls of Theocritus. Squaw-berry. See Mitchella vine. Squirrel, flying. Squirrel, gray. Squirrel, Mexican black. Squirrel, red. Squirrel corn. See Dicentra. Squirrels, as parachutes. Star, shooting. Starling, red-shouldered, or red winged blackbird, notes of. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, his SEEKING THE MAYFLOWER. Stevenson, Robert Louis, his TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY. Stick-seed. Stones, life under. Stramonium. Strawberries, wild. Succory. See Chicory. Sumac. Swallow, bank (RIPARIA RIPARIA). Swallow, barn (HIRUNDO ERYTHROGASTRA); nest of. Swallow, chimney, or chimney swift (CHÆTURA PELAGICA), nest of. Swallow, cliff (PETROCHELIDON LUNIFRONS), in poetry; nest of. Swallow, European. Swallows, in poetry. Sweat-bee. Tails, uses of. Tansy. Tare. See Vetch. Teasle. Tennyson, Alfred, quotations from; a good observer. Theocritus, quotation from. Thistle, Canada. Thistle, common. Thistle, pasture. Thistle, swamp. Thomson, James, quotation from. Thrasher, brown (TOXOSTOMA RUFUM), song of. Thrush, hermit (HYLOCICHLA GUTTATA PALLASII), in poetry; notes of. Thrush, wood (HYLOCICHLA MUSTELINA), notes of. Titlark, or American pipit (ANTHUS PENSILVANICUS). Toad. See Tree-toad. Toad-flax. Tobacco. Tortoise. Towhee. See Chewink. Tree-crickets. Tree-toad. Trout, brook, their fondness for springs; caught with tickling. Trout-fishing. Trowbridge, John T., his natural history; quotations from. Turkey, wild (MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO SILVESTRIS). Turtle. Turtle-head. Twin-flower. See Linnæa. Two-teeth. See Bidens. Velvet-leaf. See Abutilon. Venus's looking-glass. Vervain. Vetch, or tare. Violet, in poetry. Violet, Canada; its fragrance. Violet, common blue. Violet, English. Violet, white. Violet, yellow. Vireo, in poetry. Virgil, on honey-bees; quotations from. Walking, in England; a simple and natural pastime. Warbler, yellow-rumped, or myrtle (DENDROICA CORONATA). Wasp, sand. See Hornet, sand. Water-lily. See Pond-lily. Waxwing, cedar. See Cedar-bird. Weasel. Weebutook River. Weeds; their devotion to man; the gardener and the farmer the best friends of; Nature's makeshift; great travelers; their abundance in America; native and foreign; the growth of; escaped from cultivation; beautiful; uses of various; less persistent and universal than grass; virtues of. Well of St. Winifred. Wheat, winter. Whip-poor-will (ANTROSTOMUS VOCIFERUS), song of. Whiteweed. See Fleabane. Whitman, Walt, a close student of American nature; quotations from.