304 Index 



Purple-Fringed Orchises, 65. See Orchis and Habenaria 



grandiflora, and H. psy codes 

 Purple-Stemmed ClifiE-Brake, 188, 195 

 Purple Grackel, 237 



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

 Pyrola rotundtfolia, 187 



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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 



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Rabbit Plain, 139, 171, 175 



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



Ragged Mountains, base of Moimt Greylock (Mass.), 13, m, 



212, 215 

 RanunculacecB 5, 171 

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



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

 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, Mount 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 Sundew (1578), 194 

 Royal- Fern, 12 

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



