At 1.30 a thunder-shower, which was much needed, the corn having rolled and trees suffered.
3.30 p. m. — To Climbing Fern.
Virgin's-bower, apparently two or three days.
Nabalus albus, a day or two.
Sand cherry ripe. The fruit droops in umble-like clusters, two to four peduncles together, on each side the axil of a branchlet or a leaf. Emerson and Gray call it dark-red. It is black when ripe.
Emerson, Gray, and Bigelow speak of it as rare in this State! It is common enough here. I have seen it as abundant as anywhere on Weir (or Ware) Hill in Sudbury, Bigelow's own town.
Cherry three eighths of an inch diameter, peduncle seven sixteenths long. Emerson calls it eatable!
On Linnaea Hill. By factory road clearing, the small rough sunflower, two or three days.
Gerardia flava, apparently several days.
Cicuta bulbosa, several days.
Richweed at Brown's oak, several days (since 16th; say 22d).
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 28, 1856
Sand cherry ripe. See August 10, 1860 ("Sand cherry is well ripe — some of it — and tolerable, better than the red cherry or choke-cherry.")
By factory road clearing, the small rough sunflower, two or three days. See July 29, 1853 (“The sight of the small rough sunflower about a dry ditch bank and hedge advances me at once further toward autumn.”); August 1, 1852 ("The small rough sunflower (Helianthus divaricatus) tells of August heats”); August 1, 1855 ("Small rough sunflower a day or two.”)
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