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  P.M.—To Saw Mill Brook via Trillium Woods . . .

  The Ambrina (Chenopodium, Bigelow) Botrys, Jerusalem-oak, a worm-seed, by R.W.E.’s heater piece. The whole plant is densely branched—branches,spike-like—and appears full of seed. Has a pleasant, more distinct wormwood-like odor . . .

  Polygonum tenue abundant and in bloom, on side of Money-Diggers’ Hill, especially at south base, near apple tree. The choke-cherry by fence beyond spring, being dead ripe and a little wilted, is at length tolerable eating . . .

  It rained a little last night, and the river at 3 P. M. is at the same height as last night. It is not remembered when it was so high at this season. I have not seen a white lily nor a yellow one in the river for a fortnight . . .

  On the left hand, just this side the centre of Wayland, I measure the largest, or northernmost, of two large elms standing in front of an old house. At four feet from the ground, where, looking from one side, is the smallest place between the ground and the branches, it is seventeen feet in circumference . . .

  A[ustin]. Bacon showed me a drawing apparatus which he said he invented, very simply and convenient, also microscopes and many glasses for them which he made . . .

  P.M.—Sail to Ball’s (?) Hill . . . (Journal, 11:120-123).

  P.M.—To Walden to get its temperature. The air is only 66 (in the mizzling rain the 23d it was 78); the water at top, 75° (the 23d also 75). What I had sunk to the bottom in the middle, where a hundred feet deep by my line, left there half an hour, then pulled up and poured into a quart dipper, stood at 53° . . .