Visited the Egyptian Museum.

May 25. 

May 25, 2018

Visited the Egyptian Museum. The chariot wheel might have been picked out of a ditch in Carlisle, and the infant's shoe have been found with it. 

P. M. — To Staten Island. 

See an abundance of Ranunculus abortivus in the wood-path behind Mr. E.'s house, going to seed and in bloom. The branches are fine and spreading, about eight or ten inches high. (Vide pressed plants.) 

Also some R. recurvatus; and, well out, what appears to be Thaspium trifoliatum (?) in flower, in path to house. (Vide pressed.)

Potatoes just hoed; ours not fairly up.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal May 25, 1858

Ranunculus recurvatus well out See May 26, 1855 ("Ranunculus recurvatus at Corner Spring up several days at least; pollen.")

We walk to the fort on the main road and back on the Boulder trail. On the way I hear the eastern wood pewee for the first time peweeing in the now summery woods. We smell rain as we start out and hear rain in the canopy at the fort We cut saplings there. Going back past the wetland we look at cinnamon firm and Royal fern --  and a little ways on maidenhair fern I take a picture of it when I go to post it later find it Henry on May 26 has been looking at the mathematical purity of ferns in the open air. Zphx 20180525