Part 69

New Haven (Conn.), 3, 80, 105, 108, 120, 125, 131, 235; old canal to, 130

New York City (N. Y.), 3, 5, 125, 158, 161, 167, 187, 190, 234

Nigger Hill, White Oaks, 196

Nightshade, Deadly, 217

None-so-Pretty, 237

North Adams (Mass.), 5, 6, 7, 18, 39, 40, 49, 57, 133, 192, 197, 212, 215, 222, 224; Seal of the City of, 7

North Corners (North Pownal, Vt.), 192

Northern Gap, showing the hills of Bennington County, from Mount Œta, Pownal (Vt.), 86

Northfield Road, Orange Mountains (N. J.), 234, 235

North Pownal (Vt.), 188, 192, 235

Notch Brook, 111, 113

Notch Road, 213; view from, 214; roarings of, 217, 218; Hawthorne’s walks through the Notch, 218; Thoreau’s comparison of the Notch vales with those of Staten Island (N. Y.), 218; formation of the Notch, 221

Notch Valley, North Adams (Mass.), 111-113, 212, 217

Nymphæa, 83; origin of name of, 83; flapping pads of, 145; N. advena, 69, 144

Nymphs, wood, 152

Oak Hill, White Oaks (Mass.), 196; Pownal (Vt.), 141

October, month of, 180, 238

Œta, Mount, Pownal (Vt.), 3, 11, 38-40, 62, 80, 85, 89, 95, 120, 139, 188, 193, 207, 210, 212, 238; summit of, crowned with farms, 97; a foothill of the Dome, 96

Ophioglossum vulgatum, 129

Opuntia Opuntia, 158

Orange Mountains (N. J.), 131, 165, 231, 233-235; solitudes of, 232

=Orchidaceæ=, haunts of, 118, 238; tropical, 136; botanical description of, 241; New England species of, 241, 242; origin of name, 109; North American species of, 241

=Orchid Family=, 17, 45, 106, 133, 166, 187; roots of, 46, 110; extinction of, 48, 53, 71, 136; self-fertilization of, 52, 77; venders of, 53; seedlings of, 77, 136; torsion of seed-capsule of, 80, 92, 93; cultivation of native species, 82; straight seed-capsule of, 92; pigmy of the, 105; insect agency in fertilization of, 108; species in literature, 109-111; origin of name Orchis, 109; germination of seeds of, 135, 136; craze over, in culture, 136; botanical description of, 241; genera of New England, 242

=Orchis=, generic description of, 247; species, 106; high organism, 106; differences between Orchis and Cypripedium, 108; origin of name of, 109; oldest species of the family known in literature, 109-111

=O. aristata=, endemic to Alaska, 106

=O. mascula=, native of England, and resembles O. spectabilis of New England, 106

=O. morio=, native of Europe, and resembles Habenaria psycodes and Habenaria grandiflora, of New England, 110. See common names of Orchis

=O. rotundifolia=, specific description of, 248; rare, 106