August 22.
Saturday.
Channing has brought me from Plymouth and Watson Drosera filiformis, just out of bloom, from Great South Pond, Solidago tenuifolia in bloom, Sabbatia chloroides, and Coreopsis rosea.
Edward Hoar shows me Lobelia Kalmii, which he gathered in flower in Hopkinton about the 18th of July. (I found the same on the East Branch and the Penobscot); staphylea (in fruit) from Northampton, plucked within a week or so (Bigelow says it grows in Weston); also the leaves of a tree growing in Windsor, Vt., which they call the pepperidge, quite unlike our tupelo. Is it not the Celtis crassifolia?
He says he found the Uvularia perfoliata on the Stow road, he thinks within Concord bounds.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 22, 1857
I found the same on the East Branch and the Penobscot. See August 1, 1857 ("Lobelia Kalmii, . . .on bare rocks just below the falls.")
The Uvularia perfoliata on the Stow road. Thoreau’s only references to Concord occurrence of the perfoliate bellwort are two
that are second-hand, August 22, 1857, and September 22, 1852 (noting Sophia finds this in
Concord with no date or locale given,)~ Ray Angelo, Vascular Flora of Concord, Massachusetts
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