the Thoreau Log.
5 September 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Ball’s Hill . . .

  Having walked through a quantity of desmodium under Ball’s Hill, by the shore there (Marilandicum or rigidum), we found our pants covered with its seeds to a remarkable and amusing degree. These green scales closely covering and greening my legs reminded me of the lemna on a ditch . . .

(Journal, 14:73-74)

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