. 353;
sterility of Alpine plants in gardens, ii. 163;
recognition of individual reindeer by the Laplanders, ii. 251;
growth of tobacco in Sweden, ii. 307.
LINNET, ii. 158.
_Linota cannabina_, ii. 158.
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LINUM, ii. 165.
LION, fertility of, in captivity, ii. 150, 151.
LIPARI, feral rabbits of, i. 113.
LIVINGSTONE, Dr., striped young pigs on the Zambesi, i. 77;
domestic rabbits at Loanda, i. 112;
use of grass-seeds as food in Africa, i. 308;
planting of fruit-trees by the Batokas, i. 309;
character of half-castes, ii. 46;
taming of animals among the Barotse, ii. 160;
selection practised in South Africa, ii. 207, 209.
LIVINGSTONE, Mr., disuse a cause of drooping ears, ii. 301.
LIZARDS, reproduction of tail in, ii. 294;
with a double tail, ii. 341.
LLAMA, selection of, ii. 208.
LLOYD, Mr., taming of the wolf, i. 26;
English dogs in northern Europe, i. 36;
fertility of the goose increased by domestication, i. 288;
number of eggs laid by the wild goose, ii. 112;
breeding of the capercailzie in captivity, ii. 156.
LOANDA, domestic rabbits at, i. 112.
_Loasa_, hybrid of two species of, ii. 98.
_Lobelia_, reversion in hybrids of, ii. 392;
contabescence in, ii. 166.
_Lobelia fulgens_, _cardinalis_, and _syphilitica_, ii. 136.
LOCKHART, Dr., on Chinese pigeons, i. 206.
LOCUST-TREE, ii. 274.
LOISELEUR-DESLONGCHAMPS, originals of cultivated plants, i. 307;
Mongolian varieties of wheat, i. 313;
characters of the ear in wheat, i. 314;
acclimatisation of exotic wheat in Europe, i. 315;
effect of change of climate on wheat, i. 316;
on the supposed necessity of the coincident variation of weeds and
cultivated plants, i. 317;
advantage of change of soil to plants, ii. 146.
_Lolium temulentum_, variable presence of barbs in, i. 314.
LONG-TAILED sheep, i. 94, 95.
LOOCHOO islands, horses of, i. 53.
LORD, J. K., on Canis latrans, i. 22.
"LORI RAJAH," how produced, ii. 280.
_Lorius garrulus_, ii. 280.
"LOTAN," tumbler pigeon, i. 150.
LOUDON, J. W., varieties of the carrot, i. 326;
short duration of varieties of peas, i. 329;
on the glands of peach-leaves, i. 343;
presence of bloom on Russian apples, i. 349;
origin of varieties of the apple, i. 350;
varieties of the gooseberry, i. 354;
on the nut tree, i. 357;
varieties of the ash, i. 360;
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