P. M. —To Yellow Pine Lake.
Epilobium coloratum, roadside just this side of Dennis's.
Water lobelia, is it, that C. shows me?
There is a yellowish light now from a low, tufted, yellowish, broad-leaved grass, in fields that have been mown. A June-like, breezy air.
The large shaped sagittaria out, a large crystalline- white three-petalled flower.
Enough has not been said of the beauty of the shrub oak leaf (Quercus ilicifolia), of a thick, firm texture, for the most part uninjured by insects, intended to last all winter; of a glossy green above and now silky downy beneath, fit for a wreath or crown. The leaves of the chinquapin oak might be intermixed.
Grasshoppers are very abundant, several to every square foot in some fields.
I observed some leaves of woodbine which had not risen from the ground, turned a beautiful bright red, perhaps from heat and drought, though it was in a low wood.
This Ampelopsis quinquefolia is in blossom. Is it identical with that about R. W. E.'s posts, which was in blossom July 13th?
Aster Radula (?) in J. P. Brown's meadow. Solidago altissima (?) beyond the Corner Bridge, out some days at least, but not rough-hairy. Goldenrod and asters have fairly begun; i. e. there are several kinds of each out.
What is that slender hieracium or aster-like plant in woods on Corner road with lanceolate, coarsely feather-veined leaves, sessile and remotely toothed; minute, clustered, imbricate buds (?) or flowers and buds ? Panicled hieracium?
The evenings are now sensibly longer, and the cooler weather makes them improvable.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 28, 1852
A June-like breezy air. There is a yellowish light now from a low, tufted, yellowish, broad-leaved grass, in fields that have been mown. Grasshoppers are very abundant, several to every square foot in some fields. Goldenrod and asters have fairly begun; there are several kinds of each out. The evenings are now sensibly longer, and the cooler weather makes them improvable.
Goldenrod and asters have fairly begun. See July 18, 1854 ("Methinks the asters and goldenrods begin, like the early ripening leaves, with midsummer heats."); July 26, 1853 ("I mark again, about this time when the first asters open. . . This the afternoon of the year.")
What is that slender hieracium or aster-like plant in woods on Corner road? See July 31, 1856 ("Hieracium paniculatum by Gerardia quercifolia path in woods under Cliffs, two or three days."); August21, 1851 ("Hieracium paniculatum, a very delicate and slender hawkweed. I have now found all the hawkweeds. Singular these genera of plants, plants manifestly related yet distinct. They suggest a history to nature, a natural history in a new sense.”)
The evenings are now sensibly longer. See September 11, 1854 ("For a week or so the evenings have been sensibly longer, and I am beginning to throw off my summer idleness")
A June-like breezy air. There is a yellowish light now from a low, tufted, yellowish, broad-leaved grass, in fields that have been mown. Grasshoppers are very abundant, several to every square foot in some fields. Goldenrod and asters have fairly begun; there are several kinds of each out. The evenings are now sensibly longer, and the cooler weather makes them improvable.
Goldenrod and asters have fairly begun. See July 18, 1854 ("Methinks the asters and goldenrods begin, like the early ripening leaves, with midsummer heats."); July 26, 1853 ("I mark again, about this time when the first asters open. . . This the afternoon of the year.")
What is that slender hieracium or aster-like plant in woods on Corner road? See July 31, 1856 ("Hieracium paniculatum by Gerardia quercifolia path in woods under Cliffs, two or three days."); August21, 1851 ("Hieracium paniculatum, a very delicate and slender hawkweed. I have now found all the hawkweeds. Singular these genera of plants, plants manifestly related yet distinct. They suggest a history to nature, a natural history in a new sense.”)
The evenings are now sensibly longer. See September 11, 1854 ("For a week or so the evenings have been sensibly longer, and I am beginning to throw off my summer idleness")
No comments:
Post a Comment