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Dumb Watches, 32, 65. See Pitcher Plant

Dummy Farm, 116; road, 116, 207

Dutchman’s-Breeches, 131, 157, 158

Eagle Rock, Orange Mountains (N. J.), 231, 234

East Road, Pownal (Vt.), 27, 34, 144

Eckhart, Faithful, of mythological origin, Germany, 14

Eddy Farm, Notch Valley, North Adams (Mass.), 216

Eel-Grass, 64, 69

Eggleston, W. W., Rutland (Vt.), quoted, 188, 191

Elder, Poison, 35

Elephant, fossil, discovered in Vermont, 204

Ellacomb, Rev. Mr., quoted on name of Dead-Men’s Thumbs, 110

Elm “turnovers,” 103

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quoted, 55

Epigæa repens, 5, 24

Equinox, Mount, Manchester (Vt.), 86

Erosions, rock, 9, 57, 189, 221-223, 226. See Pot-hole erosions

Erythronium Americanum, 20, 126, 128, 129; origin of name of, 126

Etchowog, Bogs of, 3, 15, 16, 22, 27, 35, 39, 42, 47, 86, 88, 108, 141, 176, 178, 238; origin of name of, 63; haunts of mosquito, 182

Ethan Brand, a character of Hawthorne’s, 215; short story of, quoted, 216

Eustace Bright, a character of Hawthorne’s, 214

Everlasting, the, 237

False Lily-of-the-Valley, 20

Fence, barbed wire, 143

Fence-boards serve a purpose, 73

Fern Family, seeds of, 151, 194 Sweet Fern, 112; Oak Fern, 162, 194; Grape Fern, 199. See Spleenwort

Ferns, lichens, and mosses, origin of names of, 193

=Fertilization= and cross-fertilization, the story of, 48, 49; Orchis spectabilis, 107; Habenaria Hookeriana, 177, 178; Cypripedium hirsutum, by a snail, 178. See Darwin

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