Thoreau writes in his journal:
Asclepias Cornuti discounting. The seeded parachutes which I release soon come to earth, but probably if they waited for a stronger wind to release them they would be carried far . . .
Scare up turtle cloves in the stubble. Uva-ursi berries quite ripe. Find, for first time in Concord, Solanum nigrum,berries apparently just ripe, by a rock northwest of corydalis. Thus I have within a week found in Concord two of the new plants I found up-country. Such is the advantage of going abroad,—to enable [you] to detect your own plants. I detected them first abroad, because there I was looking for the strange.
It Is a warm and very hazy dav, with wreaths of mist in horizon . . .