Part 73

=Ram’s-Head Cypripedium=, botanical description, 243. See Lady’s Slipper or Moccasin-Flower and C. arietinum

=Rattlesnake Plantain=, generic description, 269 Downy Rattlesnake Plantain, 270 Menzies’ Rattlesnake Plantain, 271 Small One-Sided or Net-Leaf Rattlesnake Plantain, 270 White-Blotched Rattlesnake Plantain, 272

Rattlesnake Swamp, Mount Œta (Vt.), 133, 139, 148, 175, 185, 186, 207, 211, 220; Rattlesnake Ledge, 59, 133; Lloyd Spring, 62; polypores, 151

Ray, a little lad of my acquaintance, 49

Readsboro (Vt.), 224

Redmen, 14, 17

Reindeer Moss, 186

Revolving Stones, Pot-hole formations, 190. See Pot-holes

Rhododendron, Great, 6

Rhodora Canadensis, 6

Rhus, Poison, 35, 63

Richardson, Dr. John, quoted on Arctic Orchids (1823), 60

Richmond’s Farm, White Oaks, 183

Riverside, Williamstown (Mass.), 197

Robinson’s Garden, cited on name “Dead-Men’s-Thumbs,” 110

Rocking Boulders or Stones, origin of, 199

Rocky Hollow, base of the Dome, 115, 207; road through, 208, 211

Rock Pinks, 157, 161, 165

Rose Family, 119

Ros Solis, ancient name for Sundew (1578), 194

Royal-Fern, 12

Rue-in-the-Wall, Spleenwort, 188, 200, 212

Ruffled Grouse, 174

Ruskin, John, quoted, 201

Ruta-Muraria, 194, 195. See Rue-in-the-Wall

Sabrina, 21

Saddleback Mountain, North Adams (Mass.), 11; Hawthorne’s description of, 215; Thoreau’s mention of sunrise, 219

Salt Meadows, New Haven (Conn.), 125; New Jersey, 231, 237