July 4.
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| July 4, 2013 |
Is it different from the early one? High blueberries begin.
The oval-leaved drosera in bloom.
Campanula aparinoides.
I see now a later (?) rose in lower, wetter ground.
Polygala sanguinea.
The weeds are now so thick in the river — potamogetons, heart - leaf, Ranunculus Purshii, eel - grass, etc., etc. — as almost to con ceal the stream and seriously to obstruct the passage of my boat.
Polygonum sagittatum.
The cymbidium now perhaps in its prime.
I am attracted by the peculiar glaucous leaves of the rhodora.
Noli-me tangere.
The beauty of some butterflies, - dark steel blue with a light - blue edge.
Circæa, some time, the small one, at Corner Spring.
Parsnips.
The bass appears now — or a few trees — to have bloomed here and there prematurely.
The gall on the leaves of the slippery elm is like fruit.
The greater plantain, a few days.
The fine feathery tail of the Equisetum sylvaticum (?) nowadays in damp woods, near Corner Spring.
The Potamogeton hybridus (?) in fruit and flower ; though the spike is cylindrical like P. heterophyllus, yet the petioles are shorter than the float ing leaves.
What is the apparently wholly immersed potamogeton, upright with linear-lanceolate leaves? (No flower nor fruit now.)
Also what is that small upright, round, tapering plant, three inches high, at bottom of river, with apparently bristle-formed leaves arranged alternately crosswise, visibly cellular?
At Lee's Cliff, under the slippery elm, Parietaria Pennsylvanica, American pellitory, in flower, and near by Anychia dichotoma, forked chickweed (Queria [sic]) also in flower.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 4, 1853
The beauty of some butterflies, - dark steel blue with a light - blue edge.See July 16, 1853 ("I see the yellow butterflies now gathered in fleets in the road, and on the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias pulchra) by the roadside, a really handsome flower; also the smaller butterfly, with reddish wings, and a larger, black or steel-blue, with wings spotted red on edge, and one of equal size, reddish copper-colored")
The beauty of some butterflies, - dark steel blue with a light - blue edge.See July 16, 1853 ("I see the yellow butterflies now gathered in fleets in the road, and on the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias pulchra) by the roadside, a really handsome flower; also the smaller butterfly, with reddish wings, and a larger, black or steel-blue, with wings spotted red on edge, and one of equal size, reddish copper-colored")
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