Two arrowheads amid oyster and clam shells by a rock at the head of the creek.

June 28. 

Lamium amplexicaule still out behind R.’s shanty. 

I pick up two arrowheads amid oyster and clam shells by a rock at the head of the creek opposite R.’s. One was of peculiar form, quite blunt and small, of quartz, apparently to knock over small game without breaking the skin. 

(P. M. — I paddle up the Acushnet, about a mile above the paper-mill, as far as the ruined mill, in Walton’s skiff with Arthur R. (Walton was named from I. Walton, the angler, and Arthur from Dana’s hero in “Sun not set yet,” etc.) 

I never saw such an abundance of peltandra as borders that sluggish and narrow stream, in bunches alternating with pickerel-weed; leaves of very various forms and sizes.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 28, 1856


Lamium amplexicaule (henbit dead-nettle).

Peltandra virginica (green arrow-arum).