Part 21

Elecampane, 171.

Elm, English, 19, 97.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, as a poet of the woods, 43, 44; quotations from, 43, 44, 102, 176, 210, 213, 214, 218, 221; statement on fields, 53; his friendship with Carlyle, 203, 204; compared and contrasted with Carlyle, 203-210, 212; his correspondence with Carlyle, 203, 204, 208-210, 225.

England, tour in, 9; walks in, 9-20; the green turf of, 20-23, 29, 31, 32; building-stone of, 26; humanization of nature in, 27, 28; repose of the landscape in, 29-34; foliage in, 29-31; cultivated fields of, 32, 33; grazing in, 33; the climate as a promoter of greenness, 33, 34; pastoral beauty of, 35, 36; lack of wild and aboriginal beauty in, 36, 37; no rocks worth mentioning in, 37; woods in, 38-43; plowing in, 53, 54; country houses and village houses in, 62, 63; haying in, 80, 108, 109, 153; a farm and a farmer in the south of, 77, 80, 81; sunken roads of, 94, 95; inns of, 96, 97, 100-103; sturdiness and picturesqueness of the trees in, 97; commons in, 104; weather of, 106, 107; the bird-songs of, compared with those of New York and New England, 113-129; impressions of some birds of, 131-145; stillness at twilight in, 194, 195. See Great Britain.

English, the, contrasted with the Scotch, 45; a prolific people, 176-178.

Europe, animals and plants of, more versatile and dominating than those of America, 184-186.

Farming in the south of England, 80, 81.

Fells, in the north of England, 158.

Fern, maiden-hair, 173.

Fieldfare, 186.

Finch, purple (Carpodacus purpureus), song of, 118, 120, 123, 129.

Finches, songs of, 122, 123.

Fir, Scotch, 39.

Flicker. See High-hole.

Flowers, wild, American more shy and retiring than British, 163, 164, 196; species fewer but individuals more abundant in Great Britain than in America, 165; effect of latitude on the size and color of, 168; effect of proximity to the sea on, 168, 169; British less beautiful but more abundant and noticeable than American, 172, 173; British and American sweet-scented, 173; abundance of British, 196.

Flycatcher, British, 121, 189.

Flycatcher, great crested (Myiarchus crinitus), notes of, 118, 121.

Flycatcher, little green or green-crested (Empidonax virescens), notes of, 121.

Fog, at sea, 271, 272.

Foliage, in England and America, 29-31. See Trees.

Footpath, an English, 89, 90.

Forget-me-not, 196.

Fox, European red, 187, 188.

Foxglove, 90, 133, 148, 165; a beautiful and conspicuous flower, 166; in poetry, 166, 167, 196.

Frederick the Great, 242.

Frogs, 194.

Froude, James Anthony, his Thomas Carlyle, 258, 259.

Furze, or whin, 169, 170.