304 Index 



Purple-Fringed Orchises, 65. See Orchis and Habenarta 



grandiflora, and H. psycodes 

 Purple- Stemmed Cliff-Brake, 188, 195 

 Purple Grackel, 237 



Putnam Valley (N. Y.), 163; swamp of, 164; railroad, 164 

 Pyrola rotundtfolia, 187 



Quaker Meeting-House (mentioned by Hawthorne), South 

 Adams (Mass.), 214 



Quaking ground, 64 



Queen of the Lady's Slipper, 6; haunts, 68. See Moccasin- 

 Flower, and Cyripedium regince 



Rabbit Plain, 139, 171, 175 



Rafinesque, botanist, quoted on the sight of fences, 65 



Ragged Motmtains, base of Moimt Greylock (Mass.), 13, iii, 



212, 215 

 RanunculacecB 5, 171 

 Ram's-Head Cypripedium, botanical description, 243. See 



Lady's Slipper or Moccasin- Flower and C. arietinum 

 Rattlesnake Plantain, generic description, 269 



Downy Rattlesnake Plantain, 270 



Menzies' Rattlesnake Plantain, 271 



Small One-Sided or Net-Leaf Rattlesnake Plantain, 270 



White-Blotched Rattlesnake Plantain, 272 

 Rattlesnake Swamp, Moimt CEta (Vt.), 133, 139, 148, 175, 

 185, 186, 207, 211, 220; Rattlesnake Ledge, 59, 133; 

 Lloyd Spring, 62; polypores, 151 

 Ray, a little lad of my acquaintance, 49 

 Readsboro (Vt.), 224 

 Redmen, 14, 17 

 Reindeer Moss, 186 



Revolving Stones, Pot-hole formations, 190. See Pot-holes 

 Rhododendron, Great, 6 

 Rhodora Canadensis, 6 

 Rhus, Poison, 35, 63 



Richardson, Dr. John, quoted on Arctic Orchids (1823), 60 

 Richmond's Farm, White Oaks, 183 

 Riverside, Williamstown (Mass.), 197 



Robinson's Garden, cited on name " Dead- Men' s-Thumbs," 1 10 

 Rocking Boulders or Stones, origin of, 199 

 Rocky Hollow, base of the Dome, 115, 207; road through, 



208, 211 

 Rock Pinks, 157, 161, 165 

 Rose Family, 119 



Ros Solis, ancient name for Siindew (1578), 194 

 Royal-Fern, 12 

 Rue-in- the- Wall, Spleenwort, 188, 200, 212 



