INDEX

A Achilles, 156, 157 Adam, 117 Alcott, 99, 100, 102 — Louisa, 101 Alder, white, 68 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 30 Allen, Ethan, 171 Amesbury, 129 Anemone nemorosa, 143 Angle-wing, 56 Antietam, 193 Apple, Baldwin, 6 — russet, 115 — wild, 127 Appledore, 44, 46, 48, 49, 50, 52, 56, 59 Arbutus, trailing, 94, 138, 140, 141, 142, 146, 199 Arcady, 37 Argynnis, 67 — cybele, 39 Asclepias cornuti, 37 — tuberosa, 38 Assabet, 101 Asters, 37, 49, 86, 107, 113 Astræa, 150 Atlantis, 45 Azalea, 9 B Babylonian kings, 187 Bayberry, 9, 25, 46, 52, 81, 88 Bee, bumble, 25, 41 — honey, 57 Beech, 21, 177, 200 “Bemis Place, the,” 35 Bilbao, 119 Billington, 139 — sea, 139 Birch, 27, 69, 128, 200 — black, 2 — white, 21 — yellow, 27, 171 Birds Bittern, 210 Blackbird, 32, 36, 140 Blackpoll, 207 Bluebird, 169 “Bob white,” 13 Cedar wax-wing, 127 Chewink, 23 Creeper, black and white, 207 Crow, 126 Cuckoo, yellow-billed, 198, 211 Duck, 63 Finch, purple, 194 Flycatcher, great-crested, 14 — olive-sided, 55 Grosbeak, 194 Gull, 56 — herring, 129, 130 Hawk, fish, 131 — night, 210 Heron, great blue, 57 — little green, 71 Jay, 126, 200 — blue, 205 Kingbird, 56 Kingfisher, 70, 71 Maryland yellow-throat, 52, 201, 202, 204 Mourning Dove, 13 Nuthatch, white-breasted, 171 Oven-bird, 203, 204, 205 Owl, 200 “Peabody bird,” 199 Quail, 13 Robin, 2, 3, 55, 127, 139, 193, 194 Sandpipers, 56, 70 Skylark, 2 Snipe, Wilson’s, 131 Sparrow, song, 52, 55, 140, 169, 203, 206 — white-throated, 199, 211 Swallow, 7 — barn, 5, 6, 53 — tree, 53, 54 Tanager, 194 Thrush, 193, 194 — hermit, 208 — water, 203 — wood, 195, 196, 208 Vireo, 21 — red-eyed, 205, 206 — warbling, 194 Warblers, 194, 199 — Canadian, 206, 207 — parula, 200, 202 — wood, 86 Whip-poor-will, 197, 210 Black Mount, 2, 3, 4, 13 Blackberries, 47, 81 “Blobs,” 142 Blueberries, 4, 81 — low-bush blacks, 4 — pale blue, 4 Blue flag, 22, 47 Blue Hill, 32, 33 Bluets, 152 Bolles, Frank, 197, 200, 207, 208 Boston Light, 76 Bouncing-Bet, 89 Bradford, William, 75, 76, 105, 137, 138, 139, 146, 147 Bulkeley, Rev. Peter, 77 Burial Hill, 105, 137, 138, 139, 147 Buttercup, 146, 186 — bulbous, 153 Butterflies, Angle-wing, 56 Argynnis, 67 — cybele, 39 Baltimore, 41 Cabbage, 56 Colias, 27 Colias philodice, 40 Fritillary, great spangled, 39 Grapta interrogationis, 144 Hesperiidæ, 144 Hunters, 56, 144 Lycæna pseudargiolus, 144 Monarch, 39, 56 Mourning cloak, 143, 146 Papilio turnus, 38 Pyrameis huntera, 144 Sulphur, 40 Vanessa antiopa, 143 C Cabbage butterfly, 56 Cadiz, 119 Caltha palustris, 142 Camaguay, 111 Cape Cod, 75, 145 Cape of Good Hope, 148 Caraway, 43 Cardamine pratensis, 142 Carrageen, 54 Cedar, 11, 127, 128 Cedar berries, 127 Cedar, red, 9, 25, 37 Cedar wax-wing, 127 Ceylon, 63, 148 Charter Street, 148 Checkerberries, 140, 141 Chelone glabra, 41 Cherry-bird, 208, 210 Cherry, wild, 46, 50, 81, 83 Chestnut, 68 “Cheviot Hills, The,” 33 Chewink, 23 Chicory, 1 China Sea, 148 Chipmunks, 107 Chocorua, 3, 201, 206, 207, 208, 209 Chocorua, Lake, 197, 203, 208 — mountain, 197, 208 — woods, 198, 211 Chokeberry, 50 Cicada, 207 Cineraria maritima, 84 Cinquefoil, 51 Civil war, 185, 186, 189 Clark’s Island, 135 Clematis, 47, 48, 107, 113 Clethra, 62, 66 Clover, white, 58 Colias, 27 — philodice, 40 Concord, 63, 65, 71, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 98, 99 — Bridge, 91 Confederate, 191 Convolvulus, 111 Coreopsis, 44 Corydon, 37 Country brook, 26, 27, 28 Cowslip, 142 Crabs, 55 Cranberry, 51 Cranberry bog, 12, 140 Cranes-bill, 47 Creeper, black and white, 207 Cress, bitter, 142 Crow, 126 Cruciferæ, 56 Cuckoo, yellow-billed, 198, 211 Custom House, 150 D Daisy, 186 — ox-eye, 23 Dandelions, 51, 152 Dandelions, fall, 109 Deerfield River, 164, 181 Derby, Elias, 150, 158, 159 Derby Street, 148 Dexter, “Lord” Timothy, 124 Dickens, 123 Dreadnaught, 120 Duck, 63 Dummerston, 177 Dunkirk, 119 Dusty-miller, 84 E Elder, 46, 50 Emerson, 90, 97, 99, 100, 102 Eos, 61 Epigæa, 140, 141 Eric the Red, 143 Essex Institute, 150, 161 Eve, 52 Everlasting, 192 F Ferns Cinnamon, 22, 109 Hay-scented, 22 Interrupted, 22 Lady, 22 Maidenhair, 95 Royal, 22, 109 Finch, purple, 194 Firefly, 31 Florida Keys, 145 Flycatcher, great-crested, 14 — olive-sided, 55 “Flying Dutchman, The,” 120, 148 Forget-me-not, 22 Fox, 107 Fragaria, 153 Free Press, 123 Fritillary, great-spangled, 39 Frog, tree, 209 G Gallows Hill, 149, 151, 153 Garrison, William Lloyd, 123 Gaultheria, 141 Genista, 154 Geraniums, red, 44, 58, 59 Gerardia, 68 — flava, 41 — golden, 40, 41 — tenuifolia, 67 Gettysburg, 193 Ghettos, 150 Goldenrod, 27, 49, 86, 107 — seaside, 128, 130 Gosnold, 76 Grand Army, 186 Grand Turk, The, 150, 158, 159 Granite, 49 Grant, 195 Grape, fox, 111 Grapta, interrogationis, 144 Gratiola aurea, 70 Greenbrier, 8, 81, 111 Greenbush, 106 Green Harbor, 2, 3, 7, 10, 12 Grimes, C. S., 165, 173, 178 Grosbeak, 194 Guadeloupe, 119 Gulf Stream, 64 Gulistan, 188 Gull, 56 — herring, 129, 130 Gurnet, 136, 145, 147 H Habenaria fimbriata, 36 — psycodes, 35, 38 Hard-hack, 153 Harold, 94 Harraden, Jonathan, 156, 157 Hastings, 94 Hathorn, Judge, 150 Hawk, fish, 131 Hawk, night, 210 Hawthorn, 142 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 98, 102, 149, 150, 151, 160, 162 Haystack mountain, 164, 165, 172, 182 Hedge-hyssop, 68, 70 Hemlock, 16, 21, 172, 201 Hepatica, 95 Heron, great blue, 57 — little green, 71 Herring, 128, 130 Hesperiidæ, 144 Hildreth, Richard, 124 Holly berries, 127 Hollyhock, 19 “Home Sweet Home,” 117 Homer, 138 Hoosac Tunnel, 181 Huckleberry, 4, 50, 88, 128 — low-bush, black, 46 Hunter’s butterfly, 56, 144 Hyla, 52, 209 I Immortelles, 192 Indians, 32, 85 Indian pipe, 42 Ireland, 119 Isles of Shoals, 44, 49 Ivy, 107 — poison, 110 J Jamshid, 188 Jay, 126, 200 — blue, 205 Jewel Weed, 22 Job’s Hill, 23, 24 Jones, Paul, 155 Joppa, 125 — flats, 122 Juniper, 25, 69 K Kathan farm, 177 Kelp, 55, 57 Kenoza lake, 24 Khan, Genghis, 188 Kingbird, 56 Kingfisher, 69, 70, 71 L Ladies’ Tresses, 86 Launcelot, 144 “Legend of Ara-Cœli,” 34 Lichen, 9, 108, 184, 185 — reindeer, 10 Lilac, 17, 29, 186, 187, 188, 189 Liliputian, 85 Lily, pond, 32, 42 — water, 82 Lincoln, 63 Liverpool packet, 120 London pride, 19 Long Point, 75, 76, 77 Lotos, 101 Love-in-a-mist, 44 Lycæna pseudargiolus, 144 M Madeira, 119 Magnolia, 162 Maidenhair fern, 95 Manomet, 136, 143, 145, 147 — head, 135 — heights, 146 Maple, 21, 68, 128, 140, 164, 165, 171 — sap, 179 — sugar, 164, 171, 180, 182 Marigold, 44 — marsh, 142 Marjoram, 19 Marshfield, 1, 3, 6, 14 Maryland yellow-throat, 52, 201, 202, 204 Massachusetts bay, 105 Mayflower, the, 10, 76, 94, 95, 105, 135, 136, 142, 147 Mayflower, 139, 141, 142, 143, 146, 147 Meadow Sweet, 67 Memorial Day, 184, 185, 186, 187, 190, 191, 192, 195 Merrimac, 15, 20, 27 Miantowonah, 32, 42 Mica, 49 Milkweed, 37, 39, 40, 41 Mint, wild, 20 Minute Man, 91, 92, 93, 99 Mirror, New York, 105 Mogg Megone, 16 Monarch butterfly, 39, 56 Monotropa uniflora, 42 Morning glory, 49 Mourning cloak butterfly, 143, 146 Mourning dove, 13 Mussels, 54 N Naples, 145 Naples, bay of, 145 Newbury, 118 Newburyport, 118, 119, 121, 123, 125, 129 Nuthatch, white-breasted, 171 O Oak, 68, 140 Oak, red, 21, 99 — white, 21 Octavia, Miss, 132 Odysseus, 160 Odyssey, 160 Old Curiosity Shop, 123 “Old Oaken Bucket, The,” 104, 114, 117 Omar, 188 Orchid, 38 — larger, fringed, 36 — small purple-fringed, 36 Oriole, 162 Oven-bird, 203, 204, 205 Owl, 200 P Papilio turnus, 38 Parsnip, wild, 49 Parula, 200, 202 Paugus, 203 Peabody, 150 Peabody Academy of Science, 161 “Peabody Bird,” 199 Peabody, Joseph, 158 Peaked Hill Bar, 87 Peregrine, 3 Persepolis, 187 Persia, 187, 188 “Pickles for the Knowing Ones,” 123 Pierpont, John, 123, 124, 132 Pilgrim, 37, 75, 77, 82, 87, 89, 105, 137, 142, 144, 146, 147 — cemetery, 3, 6, 12 — children, 1, 141 — descendants, 3 — mothers, 78 — scouts, 80 — shrines, 78 — warriors, 81 Pine, 16, 21, 68, 129, 191 — pitch, 85 Pink, 44 — clove, 34 Pipsissewa, 42 Plantain, 51 Plum, beach, 81, 88, 128 Plum Island, 132, 133 Plymouth, 2, 94, 135, 138, 142, 143 — bay, 10, 145 — colony, 105, 137 Plymouth rock, 105 Ponkapoag, 31, 33, 34, 35 — brook, 35 — pond, 31, 32, 42 Poplar, silver-leafed, 88 Poppies, 19, 44, 58 — shirley, 49 Port au Prince, 119 Port Hudson, 193 Potentilla, 152, 153 Provincetown, 76, 77, 80, 87, 136 “Prynne, Hester,” 160 Puritan, 89, 154 Pyrameis huntera, 144 Pyrola, 42, 140 Q Quail, 13 Quartz, 49 Queenstown, 120 R Race Point, 75, 76, 78, 80 Rajah (ship), 150 Raspberry, 46 Revolution, the, 186, 189 Robin, 2, 3, 55, 127, 139, 193, 194 Rock weed, 53, 54, 57 Rose, damask, 34 — wild, 9, 11, 24, 25, 26, 50, 58, 81, 113, 187 Royal Society, philosophical transactions of, 166 Rubaiyat, 188 Rudbeckias, 23 Rush, bog, 51 S Sadi, 188 Sagittaria, 36 Sahara, 82 Salem, 148, 149, 150, 152, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 161, 162, 166 Sandpipers, 56, 70 Sandwich Range, 204 Sandy Hook, 120 Sassafras, 9, 69 Saxifraga virginiensis, 143 Saxifrage, 43, 191, 192 Scarlet Letter, 122, 149, 161 Senegambia, 148 Shadbush, 46, 50 Sinbad the Sailor, 136 Skylark, 2 Sleepy Hollow, 99 Smelt, 128, 130 Smilacina, 186, 189, 190, 192 Smilax, 111, 190 — rotundifolia, 81 — wild, 81 Smith, Capt. John, 33, 76 Snake, green, 52 Snipe, Wilson’s, 141 Sparrow, song, 52, 55, 140, 169, 203, 206 — white-throated, 199, 211 Spiranthes, gracilis, 86 Spofford, Harriet Prescott, 124, 129 Spruce, 172 Standish, Myles, 78, 85, 89 Steeplebush, 24, 25 Stevenson, 161 St. John’s-wort, 47, 58 St. Martins, 119 Strawberry, 4 — wild, 152 Sudbury, 101 Sumac, 9, 27, 50, 58 — staghorn, 8, 26, 46 Surinam, 119, 148 Swallow, 7 — barn, 5, 6, 53 — tree, 53, 54 Sweet-fern, 25, 81 Sweet william, 19 T Tambourine bird, 23 Tamerlane, 188 Tanager, 194 Thaxter, Celia, 49 — —, garden of, 44, 58 — —, grave of, 58 Third Cliff, 112 Thistle, 25 Thoreau, 60, 65, 66, 67, 69, 73, 74, 98, 99, 100 Thoroughwort, 67, 68 Thrush, 193, 194 — water, 203 — wood, 195, 196, 208 Toad-flax, 47 “Tocsin, the,” 133 Town Brook, 138 Trillium, painted, 201 — purple, 201 Troy, 97, 138 Truro, 86 — North, 77, 78, 79, 85 Turtle-head, 41 U Ulysses, 160 Usnea moss, 200 V Vanessa antiopa, 143 Violet, 153, 186, 190, 192 — wood, 201 Vireo, 21 — red-eyed, 205, 206 — warbling, 191 Virginia creeper, 47 Vishnu, 96 W Walden, 60, 62, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71 Wapping Old Stairs, 122 Warbler, 194 — Canadian, 206 — wood, 86 Warsaw, 150 Water plantain, 37 Water striders, 21 Webster, Daniel, 2, 3, 6, 12 — farm, 3 — path, 10 — place, 4 — well house, 7 West, Ebenezer, 158 Whin, 154 Whip-poor-will, 197, 210 White Mountains, 45 White, Peregrine, 1, 3, 6, 12 — —, mother of, 10 Whitefield, 123 Whittier, 17, 20, 23, 24, 28, 123 Whittier birthplace, 18 — fireplace, 15 Whittier’s mother, 16 “Wild boat of the Atlantic, the,” 120 Willow, 88, 140 Wilmington, 164, 175 Wind flower, 143 Winslow, 12 Witch Hazel, 113 Woad-waxen, 154 Woodbine, 107, 110, 111 Woodchuck, 12, 107 Woodworth, Samuel, 104, 106, 110, 114, 115 Y Yarrow, 25, 47, 48, 49