Red cohosh berries well ripe

August 11. 

Tuesday. 

Red cohosh berries well ripe in front of Hunt's, perhaps a week or more, - a round, conical spike, two and a half inches long by one and three quarters, of about thirty cherry-red berries. The berries oblong, seven sixteenths of an inch by six sixteenths, with a seam on one side, on slender pedicels about five eighths of an inch long.

H. D.  Thoreau, Journal, August 11, 1857


Red cohosh berries well ripe. See July 31, 1857 ("I also saw here [the East Branch] the red cohosh berries, ripe, (for the first time in my life")

August 11.  See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, August 11

 

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau

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out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

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