Tuesday. P. M. – To Hill and meadow.
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| August 25, 2017 |
Plucked a Lilium Canadense at three-ribbed goldenrod wall, six and eight twelfths feet high, with a pyramid of seed-vessels fourteen inches long by nine wide, the first an irregular or diagonal whorl of six, surmounted by a whorl of three. The upper two whorls of leaves are diagonal or scattered.
It agrees with Gray's L. Canadense except in size, also with G.'s superbum except that the leaves of my specimen are rough on the edges and veins beneath (but I have not the flowers!).
Bigelow says that the leaves of the L. superbum are twice as long as the internodes. These are only as long.
This, as well as most that I saw on the Penobscot, is probably only a variety of the L. Canadense.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 25, 1857
Three-ribbed goldenrod wall. See August 2, 1856 ("A three-ribbed goldenrod by small apple, by wall at foot east side of Hill (S. gigantea ? or one of the two preceding), not nearly out. It differs from my gigantea apparently only in the leaves being perfectly smooth above and the stem smooth and pink (?) glaucous (excepting a little pubescence near the top). Very tall. Vide it by and by.")
Most that I saw on the Penobscot, is probably only a variety of the L. Canadense. See July 31, 1857 ("I got one (apparently) Lilium superbum flower, , with strongly revolute sepals and perfectly smooth leaves beneath, otherwise not large nor peculiar.")
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