P. M. — Up Assabet.
Button-bush, apparently two or three days.
I suspect that those very variously formed leaves in and about woods which come to naught — like the sium in deep water — are of the nabalus.
Caught a middle-sized copper-colored devil's-needle (with darker spots on wings), sluggish, on a grass stem, with many dark-colored elliptical eggs packed closely to outside, under its breast.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 20, 1856
A middle-sized copper-colored devil's-needle. See June 13, 1854 ("I float homeward over water almost perfectly smooth, my sail so idle that I count ten devil's-needles resting along it at once."); July 17, 1854 ("I am surprised to see crossing my course in middle of Fair Haven Pond great yellowish devil's-needles, flying from shore to shore."); July 27, 1856 ("A great devil's-needle alights on my paddle...");
Floating homeward, I
count devil's-needles at rest
on my idle sail.
Flying shore to shore,
yellowish devil's-needles
cross their Atlantic.
A devil's-needle
keeps its place on my paddle
against a strong wind.
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