September 13.
Sunday.
Nabalus Fraseri, top of Cliffs, — a new plant, — yet in prime and not long out. The nabalus family generally, apparently now in prime.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, September 13, 1857
Nabalus Fraseri, top of Cliffs, — a new plant. See September 6, 1851 ("Prenanthes alba; this Gray calls Nabalus albus, white lettuce or rattlesnake-root. Also I seem (?) to have found Nabalus Fraseri, or lion's-foot.”) Nabalus fraseri = Prenanthes serpentaria Botanical Index to Thoreau's Journal
The nabalus family generally, apparently now in prime. See July 28, 1856 ("Nabalus albus, a day or two.”); September 4, 1857 ("I see prenanthes radical leaf turned pale-yellow.”);August 27, 1858 ("The Nabalus albus has been out some ten days, but N. Fraseri at Walden road will not open, apparently, for some days yet."); September 8, 1856 ("Along this path observed the Nabalus altissimus, flowers in a long panicle of axillary and terminal branches, small-flowered, now in prime."); September 17, 1857 (“I go to Fair Haven Hill, looking at the varieties of nabalus, which have a singular prominence now in all woods and roadsides. ”); September 23, 1857 ("Varieties of nabalus grow along the Walden road in the woods; also, still more abundant, by the Flint's Pond road in the woods....”); ,
New and collected mind-prints. by Zphx. Following H.D.Thoreau 170 years ago today. Seasons are in me. My moods periodical -- no two days alike.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
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