Part 72

Polypodium vulgare, 14

Polypody Ferns, 194, 212

Polypores, haunts, 149-152, 186; structure, 151; seeds or spores, 151; origin of name, 151

Poppy Family, 164

Pot-hole erosions, origin, 189, 190, 220, 221; formation of Wash-Tub Brook, 189; ancient revolving stone, Bronx Park (N. Y. City), 190; Deerfield Arch, 222; Natural Bridge Chasm, 226. See Erosions and Natural Bridge

Pownal (Vt.), District Thirteen, 63

Pownal (Vt.), District Fourteen, 15, 16, 25, 36, 39, 44, 57, 139, 171; schoolhouse in, 62, 75, 89

Pownal, Bennington County (Vt.), only town of the State through which the Hoosac River flows, 63, 116, 121, 133, 135, 188, 193, 213, 220, 236; Oak Hill Cemetery, 141

Pownal Centre (Vt.), 27, 174, 191, 199, 200, 204; road, 36, 41, 198. See Centre-of-the-Town

Pownal Pond (Vt.), 16, 27, 28, 31, 62, 84, 143, 176, 180; glacial hills around, 68; picnic grove, 143. See Perch Pond

Prince’s Pine, 24, 187

Prune or Plum, origin of names, 119

Prunus Pennsylvanica, 119

Pteris aquilina, 20, 195

Pudding Grass, 132

Puff-Balls, 151. See Polypores

=Purple-Fringed Orchises=, 65. See Orchis and Habenaria grandiflora, and H. psycodes

Purple-Stemmed Cliff-Brake, 188, 195

Purple Grackel, 237

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

Pyrola rotundifolia, 187

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 Cypripedium reginæ

Rabbit Plain, 139, 171, 175

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

Ragged Mountains, base of Mount Greylock (Mass.), 13, 111, 212, 215

Ranunculaceæ, 5, 171