P. M.--To lime-kiln with Mr.
Bacon of Natick.
Sisymbrium amphibium (?) of
Bigelow, some days, at foot of Loring's land.
Common mallows well out;
how long?
What is that sisymbrium or mustard-like plant at foot of Loring 's ?
Erigeron strigosus (??) out earliest, say yesterday.
Observed a ribwort near
Simon Brown's barn by road, with elongated spikes and only pistillate flowers.
Hedge-mustard, how long?
Pepper grass, how long? Some time.
Scirpus lacustris, maybe
some days.
I see a black caterpillar
on the black willows nowadays with red spots.
Mr. Bacon thinks that
cherry-birds are abundant where cankerworms are.
Says that only female
mosquitoes sting (not his observation alone); that there are one or two arbor-vitæs
native in Natick.
He has found the Lygodium
palmatum there.
There is one pure-blooded
Indian woman there. Pearl [?], I think he
called her.
He thought those the exuviæ
of mosquitoes on the river weeds under water.
Makes his own microscopes
and uses garnets.
He called the huckleberry-apple
a parasitic plant, — pterospora, – which grown on and changed the nature
of the huckleberry.
Observed a diseased
Andromeda paniculata twig prematurely in blossom.
Caught a locust, — properly harvest-fly (cicada), — drumming on a
birch, which Bacon and Hill (of Waltham) think like the septendecim, except
that ours has not red eyes but black ones.
Harris's other kind, the dog-day cicada (canicularis), or harvest-fly. He says it begins to be heard invariably at the beginning of dog-days; he (Harris) heard it for many years in succession with few exceptions on the 25th of July.
Harris's other kind, the dog-day cicada (canicularis), or harvest-fly. He says it begins to be heard invariably at the beginning of dog-days; he (Harris) heard it for many years in succession with few exceptions on the 25th of July.
Bacon says he has seen pitch pine pollen in a cloud going over a
hill a mile off; is pretty sure.
Makes his own microscopes and uses garnets. See August 24. 1857 ("A. Bacon showed me a drawing apparatus which he said he invented, very simple and convenient, also microscopes and many glasses for them which he made.")
Bacon says there are one or two arbor-vitæs native in Natick. See August 24, 1857 ("B[acon] says that the arbor-vitae grows indigenously in pretty large patches in Needham")
Thee dog-day cicada begins to be heard invariably at the beginning of dog-days; he (Harris) heard it for many years in succession with few exceptions on the 25th of July. See note to July 22, 1860 ("First locust heard.")
Bacon says he has seen pitch pine pollen in a cloud going over a hill a mile off; See. June 3, 1857 ("The pitch pine at Hemlocks is in bloom. . . .As usual, when I jar them the pollen rises in a little cloud about the pistillate flowers and the tops of the twigs, there being a little wind"); June 9, 1850 ("I see the pollen of the pitch pine now beginning to cover the surface of the pond.")
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