the Thoreau Log.
30 May 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

   Whiteweed. Spergularia rubra, apparently a day or two, side of railroad above red
house. Yarrow.

  P.M.—To Clintonia Swamp and Pond . . .

  Found a ground-robin’s nest, under a tuft of dry sedge which the winter had bent down, in sprout-land on the side of Heywood Peak, perfectly concealed, with two whitish eggs very thickly sprinkled with brown; made of coarse grass and weed stems and lined with a few hairs and stems of the mahogany moss . . .

(Journal, 6:316-318)

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