Young Adams of Waltham tells me he has been moose-hunting at Chesuncook.

August 1.

P. M. -- To Conantum by boat. 

Squirrels have eaten and stripped pitch pine cones. 

Small rough sunflower a day or two. 

Diplopappus cornifolius (how long?) at Conant Orchard Grove. 

In the spring there, which has not been cleared out lately, I find a hairworm, eight or nine inches long and big as a pin-wire; is biggest in the middle and tapers thence to tail; at head is abruptly cut off; curly in your fingers like the tendril of a vine. 

I spent half an hour overhauling the heaps of clamshells under the rocks there. Was surprised to find the anodon and the green-rayed clams there. 

Pennyroyal and alpine enchanter’s-nightshade well out, how long? 

Young Adams of Waltham tells me he has been moose-hunting at Chesuncook. Hunted with a guide in evening without horn, it being too early to call them out. Heard the water dropping from their muzzles when they lifted their heads from feeding on the pads, as they stood in the river.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal,  August 1, 1855


Small rough sunflower a day or two. See August 1, 1852 ("The small rough sunflower (Helianthus divaricatus) tells of August heats") See also July 28, 1856 ("By factory road clearing, the small rough sunflower, two or three days."); 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 11, 1858 ("Also the small rough sunflower (now abundant)"); August 19, 1851 ("Small rough sunflower by side of road between canoe birch and White Pond")