Part 2

VI. HAIL STORMS AT ETCHOWOG 72

VII. SWEET POGONIAS AND LIMODORUMS 83

VIII. A COLONY OF RAM’S-HEADS IN WITCH HOLLOW 95

IX. OVER THE HUCKLEBERRY PLAINS 115

Second Season

X. WESTVILLE SWAMPS AND MOUNT CARMEL, CONNECTICUT 125

XI. MAY SHOWERS AND WHITE MOCCASIN-FLOWERS 137

XII. SAUCY JAYS AND POLYPORES 149

Third Season

XIII. THE SWAMPS AND HILLS OF MOSHOLU AND LOWERRE, NEW YORK 157

XIV. THE SWAMP OF ORACLES—HOOSAC VALLEY 167

XV. WHITE OAKS AND GREGOR ROCKS 183

XVI. ALPINE BLOSSOMS OF THE DOME 201

XVII. THE CASCADE AND BELLOWS-PIPE, NOTCH VALLEY, BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS 212

XVIII. THE NATURAL BRIDGE OF MAYUNSOOK VALLEY, NORTHERN BERKSHIRE 224

XIX. ORANGE MOUNTAINS, AND SALT MEADOWS, NEW JERSEY 231

APPENDIX—NEW ENGLAND ORCHIDS 239

INDEX 285

Illustrations

The photographs in this list marked thus * were taken by Miss Katherine Lewers, the others by the author. The coloring is the work of the author. Of the fifteen genera of Orchidaceæ in New England, all save Listera, Tipularia, and Aplectrum are represented in these illustrations.

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The Pink Moccasin-Flower (Cypripedium acaule)* Frontispiece Colored

The Large Yellow Moccasin-Flower (Cypripedium hirsutum)* 4 Colored

The Botanizing Can, or Vasculum, Showing the White-Petaled Lady’s Slipper and Maiden-Hair Fern* 8

Mount Greylock’s Brotherhood—the Berkshire Highlands, from Mount Œta, Bennington County, Vermont, Showing the College Town of Williamstown in the Valley* 10

The Western Gateway of Hoosac Mountain, the Entrance to Hoosac Tunnel, North Adams, Massachusetts 14 Source of photograph unknown.

Ball Brook, in the Swamp of Oracles, Pownal, Vermont* 18

The Showy Lady’s Slipper—the Queen of the Indian Moccasin-Flowers (Cypripedium reginæ)* 24 Colored