Wading in Flint's Pond.

July 2. 

P. M. — To Stow's chestnut and Thaspium aureum. 

Vetch, morning-glory, Andromeda ligustrina, how long ? 

Waded out thirteen rods from rock in Flint's Pond, and was only up to my middle. 

Mitchella repens is abundantly out.

Partridge-berry in bloom
(Mitchella repens)
July 2, 2017
(avesong)

Pyrola elliptica out. Cladium not quite.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 2, 1859

To Stow's chestnut. See May 9, 1859 ("Surveying for Stow near Flint's Pond."); August 14, 1856 ("All the Flint's Pond wood-paths are strewn with these gay-spotted chestnut leaves")

Thaspium aureum. See May 11, 1859 ("In the path in Stow's wood-lot, I find apparently Thaspium aureum (Zizia aurea), which will open the first fair day."); June 4, 1852 ("The golden alexanders is called Zizia aurea."); June 2, 1852 ("Golden alexanders - looks like a parsnip.")

Mitchella repens is abundantly out. Pyrola elliptica out. See March 4, 1854 ("In Hubbard's maple swamp I see the evergreen leaves of the gold-thread as well as the mitchella and large pyrola."); July 3, 1859 ("The Mitchella repens, so abundant now in the north west part of Hubbard's Grove, emits a strong astringent cherry-like scent as I walk over it, now that it is so abundantly in bloom, which is agreeable to me, — spotting the ground with its downy-looking white flowers.") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Partridge-berry (Mitchella Repens)

Waded out thirteen rods from rock in Flint's Pond, and was only up to my middle. See April 16, 1855 ("At Flint’s, sitting on the rock, we see a great many ducks, mostly sheldrakes, on the pond, which will hardly abide us within half a mile. With the glass I see by their reddish heads that all of one party ——the main body—are females. "); June 11, 1856 ("I notice no white lily pads near the bathing-rock in Flint’s Pond."); June 19, 1853 ("In the middle of the path to Wharf Rock at Flint's Pond, the nest of a Wilson's thrush");June 23, 1858 ("That rather low wood along the path which runs parallel with the shore of Flint's Pond, behind the rock, is evidently a favorite place for veery-nests. I have seen three there."); August 31, 1857 ("At Flint's Pond I wade along the edge eight or ten rods to the wharf rock, carrying my shoes and stockings"); September 21, 1854 ("The pond is low near the bathing-rock."); October 6, 1858 ("The tupelo at Wharf Rock is completely scarlet, with blue berries amid its leaves."); February 20, 1852 ("The rock by the pond is remarkable for its umbilicaria"); November 22, 1859 ("C. says that he saw to-day a procession of minnows (one to two inches long) some three or four feet wide, about forty abreast, passing slowly along northerly, close to the shore, at Wharf Rock, Flint's Pond. They were fifteen minutes passing!"); December 22, 1859 ("I look back to the wharf rock shore and see that rush (cladium I have called it), the warmest object in the landscape, — a narrow line of warm yellow rushes — for they reflect the western light, — along the edge of the somewhat snowy pond and next the snow-clad and wooded shore.")

Cladium not quite. See August 31, 1858 ("The Flint’s Pond rush appears to be Cladium mariscoides, twig rush.")