Viola lanceolata in Moore's Swamp

 

October 3.


Viola lanceolata in Moore's Swamp.


H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 3, 1853

Viola lanceolata in Moore's Swamp. See September 19, 1852 ("The Viola lanceolata has blossomed again, and the lambkill.");   September 20, 1852 ("The Viola sagittata has blossomed again."); September 28, 1852 (" I find the hood-leaved violet quite abundant in a meadow, and the pedata in the Boulder Field.  I have now seen all but the blanda, palmata, and pubescens blooming again .. . This is the commencement, then, of the second spring");  . September 28, 1853 ("Viola cucullata");October 1, 1858 ("Viola lanceolata again.");  October 10, 1851 ("There are many things to indicate the renewing of spring at this season");