Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Walk to Hermitage Woods

June 14

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.")

Common buckthorn: 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 ~ GoBotany

Maple-leaved viburnum out a day or more . . . See June 12, 1853 ("Maple-leaved viburnum well out at Laurel Glen.").

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