Thoreau writes, in his journal:
Red cohosh berries well ripe in front of Hunt’s, perhaps a week or more,—a small 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 . . .
