the Thoreau Log.
5 June 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Indian Ditch.

  Achillea Millefolium. Black cherry, apparently yesterday. The Muscicapa Cooperi sings pe pe pe’, sitting on the top of a pine, and shows white rump (?), etc., unlike kingbird.

  Return by J. Hosmer Desert.

  Everywhere now in dry pitch pine woods stand the red lady’s-slippers over the red pine leaves on the forest floor, rejoicing in June, with their two broad curving green leaves,—some even in swamps. Uphold their rich, striped red, drooping sack . . .

(Journal, 8:365-367)

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