300 Index 



Newark (N. J.), 231 



New Bedford (Mass.), 80 



New England, 24, 40, 42, 57, 106, 187; Orchids of, 239 



New Jersey, Orange Mountains and Salt Meadows, 231 



New Hampshire Grants, 198 



New Haven (Conn.), 3, 80, 105, 108, 120, 125, 131, 235; old 

 canal to, 130 



New York City (N. Y.), 3, 5, 125, 158, 161, 167, 187, 190, 234 



Nigger Hill, White Oaks, 196 



Nightshade, Deadly, 217 



None-so- Pretty, 237 



North Adams (Mass.), 5, 6, 7, 18, 39, 40, 49, 57, 133, 192, 197, 

 212, 215, 222, 224; Seal of the City of, 7 



North Comers (North Pownal, Vt.), 192 



Northern Gap, showing the hills of Bennington County, from 

 Mount (Eta, Pownal (Vt.), 86 



Northtield Road, Orange Mountains (N. J.), 234, 235 



North Pownal (Vt.), 188, 192, 235 



Notch Brook, 1 1 1 , 113 



Notch Road, 213; view from, 214; roarings of, 217, 218; 

 Hawthorne's walks through the Notch, 218; Thoreau's 

 comparison of the Notch vales with those of Staten 

 Island (N. Y.), 218; formation of the Notch, 221 



Notch Valley, North Adams (Mass.), 111-113, 212, 217 



Nymphcsa, 83; origin of name of, 83; flapping pads of, 145 

 A'^. advena, 69, 144 



Nymphs, wood, 152 



Oak Hill, White Oaks (Mass.), 196; Pownal (Vt.), 141 



October, month of, 180, 238 



(Eta, Motmt, Pownal (Vt.), 3, 11, 38-40, 62, 80, 85, 89, 95, 

 120, 139, 188, 193, 207, 210, 212, 238; summit of, 

 crowned with farms, 97 ; a foothill of the Dome, 96 



Ophioglossum vulgatum, 129 



Opuntia Opuntia, 158 



Orange Motmtains (N. J.), 131, 165, 231, 233-235; soli- 

 tudes of, 232 



Orchidaceae, haunts of, 118, 238; tropical, 136; botanical 

 description of, 241 

 New England species of, 241, 242; origin of name, 109 

 North American species of, 241 



Orchid Family, 17, 45, 106, 133, 166, 187; roots of, 46, no; 

 extinction of, 48, 53, 71, 136; self-fertilization of, 52, 

 77; venders of, 53; seedlings of, 77, 136; torsion of 

 seed-capsule of, 80, 92, 93; cultivation of native spe- 

 cies, 82; straight seed-capsule of, 92; pigmy of the, 

 105; insect agency in fertilization of , 108; species in 

 literature, 109-111; origin of name Orchis, 109; ger- 

 mination of seeds of, 135, 136; craze over, in ctdture, 

 136 ; botanical description of, 241 ; genera of New Eng- 

 land, 242 



