I hear of young song sparrows and young robins

May 18. 

May 18, 2019

Surveying for Stow in Lincoln. 

Two-leaved Solomon's-seal. 

I hear of young song sparrows and young robins since the 16th. 

That handsome spawn of Ed. Emerson's aquarium — minute transparent ova in a double row on the glass or the stones — turns out to be snail-spawn, it having just hatched, and there was no salamander-spawn, as I thought on the 18th of April. Not Paludina decisa, but the smaller and simpler one.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 18, 1859

Two-leaved Solomon's-seal. May 13, 1855 (" The brook in Yellow Birch Swamp is very handsome now — broad and full, with the light-green hellebore eighteen inches high and the small two-leaved Solomon’s-seal about it, in the open wood.”); May 21, 1856 ("The Polygonatum pubescens there, in shade, almost out; perhaps elsewhere already.”); May 26, 1855 ("Two-leaved Solomon’s-seal pollen not long in most places.”); May 30, 1857 ("two-leaved Solomon's-seal out, . . . abundant.”)

That handsome spawn of Ed. Emerson's aquarium See April 18, 1859 (“Ed. Emerson shows me his aquarium.”)