Walk to Hermitage Woods

June 14. [Worcester, Mass]

Walk to Hermitage Woods with Sophia and aunts. 

Uvularia perfoliata very common there; now out of bloom. 

Rhamnus cathartica, common buckthorn, naturalized in those woods, now going out of bloom. It is dioecious, twelve feet high, north side. 

Maple-leaved viburnum out a day or more there apparently. 

Mallows abundantly out in street.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 14, 1856

Hermitage Woods with Sophia. See June 12, 1856, ("Sophia has sent me, in a letter from Worcester, part of an orchis in bloom from the Hermitage Wood, so called, northeast of the town.")

Uvularia perfoliata very common there; now out of bloom. See June 3, 1851 ("Saw the Uvularia perfoliata, perfoliate bellwort, in Worcester near the hill.") ; May 30, 1857  (" By the path near the northeast shore of Flint's Pond . . . am surprised to find it the Uvularia perfoliata, which I have not found hereabouts before.") See also A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, the Bellworts

Rhamnus cathartica, common buckthorn, naturalized in those woods. See GoBotany ("A popular choice for hedgerows, boundaries, and wildlife cover following its introduction to North American in the late 1700's. Now regarded as an invasive species. The cathartic nature of its fruits causes birds to rapidly digest, process, and disperse the seeds over broad areas.")

Maple-leaved viburnum out a day or more. See June 12, 1853 ("Maple-leaved viburnum well out at Laurel Glen."); June 12, 1854 ("Perhaps . . . the maple-leaved viburnum are as early as the V. nudum and V. dentatum, only more rare."); June 14, 1851 ("The Viburnum dentatum, very regularly toothed, just ready to blossom; sometimes called arrow-wood.") See also A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, The Viburnums

Mallows abundantly out in street. See June 14, 1854 ("See Common mallows well out; how long? ")