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=Leptorchis=, generic description, 274. See Twayblade, Lily-Leaved =L. liliifolia=, specific description, 274; haunts, 109, 162 =L. Loeselii=, specific description, 275

Lichens, origin of names of, 194

Lily Family, 158; leaves of species of, 126; bulbs of, 128 Blackberry Lily, 161 Dog’s-Tooth Lily, 12; origin of name, 127, 128. See Erythronium Americanum Lilium Philadelphicum, 210 Wild Lily or Yellow Clintonia, 116, 117 Wildwood Lily, 210 Yellow Pond Lily, 69, 144; origin of name, 83

Lily-of-the-Valley Family, 162, 176

Liparis, Lily-Leaved, 162. See Leptorchis liliifolia

Limekilns, North Adams (Mass.), 13, 214

Limestone ridges, Pownal (Vt.), 198

=Limodorum=, generic description, 282; comrade species of, 62, 85; haunts, 88, 90, 178, 181, 202; origin of name, 91, 282. See Grass Pink, or Meadow-Gift =L. tuberosum=, specific description, 282; haunts, 47, 83, 87, 89, 90, 91; structure of, 91, 92

Limnanthemum lancunosum, 180

Linnæus, quoted on origin of plant names, 58, 126

Liriodendron Tulipifera, 234

=Listera=, generic description, 267 =L. auriculata=, specific description, 268 =L. convallarioides=, specific description, 268 =L. cordata=, specific description, 269

Llewellyn Park, Orange Mountains (N. J.), 234

Lloyd Spring, Mount Œta (Vt.), 234

Lobelia, 187, 235, 236 L. cardinalis, 233 L. spicata, 236 L. syphilitica, 236

Logger’s Depot, 208

=Long Purples=, 110. See Purple-Fringed Orchises, genus Habenaria

Lorenna, a little flower hunter, 36-38, 40, 41, 98

Lowerre (N. Y.), swamps and hills of, 157, 158, 164, 234

Lycopodium, 194; origin of name, 182 L. obscurum, 182 L. Selago, 182

Lyte, Henry, translations of Dodoens’ History of Plants (1578), quoted, 110, 111, 195

Magnolia Family, 233 M. Virginiana, 235; or Sweet Bay, 235

Maiden-Hair Ferns, 12, 57, 70, 194, 199, 232; Spleenwort, 161, 212

Mail-coach, first, in Hoosac Valley, 7

Major, a valued hound, 62, 100; as a good comrade, 15, 19, 46, 67, 72, 99, 146, 150, 211

Manhattan Island (N. Y. City), 158

Mann Mountain, Pownal (Vt.), 98

Manzanita, an evergreen shrub of Nevada, 165

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