Wood thrush still sings

July 31. 

Blue-curls. 

Wood thrush still sings. 

Desmodium rotundifolium. Lespedeza hirta, say 26th, at Heywood Peak. 

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 31, 1854

Blue-curls. See July 31, 1856 ("Trichostema has now for some time been springing up in the fields, giving out its aromatic scent when bruised, and I see one ready to open.") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Blue-Curls

Wood thrush still sings See July 30, 1853 ("The wood thrush still sings and the peawai."); August 12, 1854 ("Have not heard a wood thrush since last week of July.") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, The Wood Thrush

Desmodium rotundifolium. Lespedeza hirta. See August 7, 1856 (“At Blackberry Steep . . .[t]he D. rotundifolium is there abundant; also, beside, Lespedeza hirta and capitata, the elliptic-oblong L. violacea and the angustata, as also at Heywood Peak. All these plants seem to love a dry open hillside, a steep one. Are rarely upright, but spreading, wand-like.”); August 19, 1856 ("I spent my afternoon among the desmodiums and lespedezas, sociably.")