New fungi within a week

July 30

I find the new rudbeckia in five distinct and distant parts of the town this year, - beyond almshouse, Arethusa Meadow, Sam. Wheeler meadow, Abel Hosmer meadow, and J. Hosmer meadow.

July 30, 2025

There are some of what I will call the clustered low blackberries on the sand just beyond the Dugan Desert. There are commonly a few larger grains in dense clusters on very short peduncles and flat on the sand, clammy with a cool subacid taste.

July 30, 2014

I have seen a few new fungi within a week. The tobacco-pipes are still pushing up white amid the dry leaves, sometimes lifting a canopy of leaves with them four or five inches.


H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 30, 1854

I find the new rudbeckia in five distinct and distant parts of the town. See July 30, 1856 (“Rudbeckia laciniata, perhaps a week.”); See also  July 31, 1856 (“Measured a Rudbeckia hirta flower; more than three inches and three eighths in diameter.”); August 6, 1853 ("The rudbeckia must have been out at least a week or more; half the buds have opened."); August 16, 1852 ("I must look for the rudbeckia which Bradford says he found yesterday behind Joe Clark's");  August 18, 1852 (“Rudbeckia laciniata, sunflower-like tall cone-flower, behind Joe Clark's”).; September 4, 1857 ("Rudbeckia laciniata by Dodge's Brook"); September 21, 1857 ("Rudbeckia laciniata done, probably some time.")

Clustered low blackberries on the sand . . with a cool subacid taste See  July 23, 1859 ("Low blackberries have begun. "); July 31, 1856 (“How thick the berries — low blackberries, Vaccinium vacillans, and huckleberries — on the side of Fair Haven Hill! ”); August 4, 1852 (“Most huckleberries and blueberries and  low blackberries are in their prime now.”); See also August 3, 1856 ("High blackberries beginning; a few ripe"); August 4, 1856 ("You go daintily wading through this thicket, picking, perchance, only the biggest of the blackberries — as big as your thumb"); TAugust 17, 1853 ("The high blackberries are now in their prime;") and  A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, Blackberries

The tobacco-pipes are still pushing up white amid the dry leaves.  See July 30, 1853 ("The tobacco-pipe has also pushed up there amid the dry leaves in the shade.") See also July 29, 1853 ("There is not only the tobacco-pipe, but pine-sap.") jand A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, Pine-sap and Indian-pipe

July 30. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, July 30

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau

"A book, each page written in its own season,

out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

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