Meriden (Conn.), 129 Merrimack River, 190 Merwin, a little guardsman of the swamps, 70; home of, 70, 87; mother of, 73-75, 88 Meyers’ sugar kitchen, 89, 187; road, 86 Milkweed Family, 234 Milton, John, quoted, 21, 141, 149, 153 Minister and School Lots, 198 Mints, ancient name of, 132 _Mitchella repens_, 24 =Moccasin-Flower=, generic description of, 242; haunts of, 5, 8, 26, 36, 40, 44, 48, 49, 141, 203; origin of name of, 59; seedlings of, 77. _See_ Lady’s Slipper and _Cypripedium_ =Large Yellow= or =Downy Moccasin-Flower=, specific description, 245; haunts, 56, 57, 60, 62, 134, 152, 168, 173, 184; most generally distributed species, 60. See _C. hirsutum_ =Ram’s-Head Moccasin-Flower=, specific description, 243; history, 98. See _C. arietinum_ =Small White= or =Prairie Moccasin-Flower=, specific description, 244; haunts, 61, 184, 245. See _C. candidum_ =Small Yellow= or =Fragrant Yellow Moccasin-Flower=, specific description, 246; haunts, 57, 59, 60, 159; rare species in New England, 60; fragrance, 159, 178; seedlings in McLean’s Woods (N. Y. City), 163. See _C. parviflorum_ =Two-Leaved= or =Pink Moccasin-Flower=, specific description, 246; haunts, 33, 36, 44, 67, 103, 104, 116, 120, 134, 141, 147, 174, 175, 206; colony of two hundred plants, 78, 141, 147; most common species in New England, 81; albinos, 147, 148, 175; evident evolution, 148. See _C. acaule_ =White Petaled, Showy=, or =Queen of the Indian Moccasin-Flowers=, specific description, 244; haunts, 55, 68, 71, 72, 75, 142, 152, 172, 184; albinos, 61, 137, 184; as decoration for church chancel during Williams College Commencement, 70; testing a frozen sod, 82. See _C. reginæ_ _Moneses uniflora_, 24 Monkshood, 171 _Monotropaceæ_, 165 _Monotropa uniflora_, 164. _See_ Indian Pipe Montclair (N. J.), 131 Montpelier (Vt.), 6 Monumental Rock, Mosholu (N. Y.), glacial erosions on, 165; rock pinks growing on, 166 Mosholu (N. Y.), 60, 158, 160, 163, 166, 172, 188, 234; swamps and hills of, 157, 158, 165 Mount Vernon (N. Y.), woods of, 131, 163, 173, 184 Mountains, Nature’s retreats, 238 Mullens, St. Peter’s, 238 Müller, Professor, quoted, 77 Mushrooms, poisonous, 183, 184 Mustard Family, 162; white species, 162 N Names of plants, Roman, or Latin, 128 Nardus rustica, 179 Natural Bridge, North Adams (Mass.), 222, 224; Hawthorne’s description of, 225, 226; paths to, 225; deepest pool or pot-hole, 226; formation of arch of, 226-229; rainbows, 227 Nature, man’s triumph over, 8; solitudes of, 64, 65, 203; weeping of, 137; pristine condition of, 144; tragedies of, 173 Nature Study, 48; classrooms for, 139