Index 303 



Plant World, the, cited, 126, 169 



Piatt, "a friend of mine," a character of Hawthorne's, 218, 



219 

 Pleasant Valley, Orange Mountains (N. J.), 234 

 Pletirisy-Root, 234 



Pliny, orchises known to, 109; Natural History quoted, 240 

 Plymouth (Mass.), 24 



Poe Cottage, Bedford Park (N. Y. City), 161 

 Pogonia, generic description, 259; haunts, 62, 63, 70, 73, 83, 



85, 88, 125, 178, 181, 202; delicate, 89; origin of 



name, 90, 259; New England species, 259. See Sweet 



Pogonias 

 P. affinis, specific description, 261; origin of name, 261 

 P. ophioglossoides, specific description, 260; origin of 



name, 90, 260; flowers, 90, 94; fragrance, 90; roots, 



91; fertilization, 94. 5^^ Snake-Mouth Fogoma 

 P. trianthophora, specific description, 260 ; origin of name, 



260; range, 260 

 P. verticillata, 187; specific description, 261; origin of 



name, 261 

 Point of Rocks, Mosholu, and Lowerre (N.Y.), 161, 164, 165 

 Pollen and Pollinia of Orchids, 93 

 Pollywogs, or tadpoles, 63, 69, 144 



Polygonum amphihium, 84, 143; name of, 84; genus, 144, 145 

 Poly podium vulgar e, 14 

 Polypody Ferns, 194, 212 

 Polypores, haunts, 149-152, 186; structure, 151; seeds or 



spores, 151; origin of name, 151 

 Poppy Family, 164 

 Pot-hole erosions, origin, 189, 190, 220, 221; formation of 



Wash-Tub Brook, 189; ancient revolving stone, Bronx 



Park (N. Y. City), 190; Deerfield Arch, 222; Natural 



Bridge Chasm, 226. See Erosions and Natural Bridge 

 Pownal (Vt.), District Thirteen, 63 

 Pownal (Vt.), District Fourteen, 15, 16, 25, 36,39, 44, 57, 139, 



171; schoolhouse in, 62, 75, 89 

 Pownal, Bennington County (Vt.), only town of the State 



through which the Hoosac River flows, 63, 116, 121, 



133, 135, 188, 193, 213, 220, 236; Oak Hill Cemetery, 



141 

 Pownal Centre (Vt.), 27, 174, 191, 199, 200, 204; road, 36, 



41, 198. See Centre-of-the-Town 

 Pownal Pond (Vt.), 16, 27, 28, 31, 62, 84, 143, 176, 180; 



glacial hills around, 68; picnic grove, 143. See Perch 



Pond 

 Prince's Pine, 24, 187 

 Prune or Plum, origin of names, 119 

 Prunus Pennsylvanica, 119 

 Pteris aquilina, 20, 195 

 Pudding Grass, 132 

 Puff-Balis, 151. See Polypores 



