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  There is an old pasture behind E. Wood’s incrusted with the clay-like thallus of the bæomyces which is unexpectedly thin . . . P. M.—To Saw Mill Brook and Smith’s Hill.

  The Nepta Glechoma is out under R. Brown’s poles . . . I proceed down the Turnpike . . . That sedum (?) by Tuttle’s is now a foot high . . . I sit on a rock in Saw Mill Brook . . . I leave the woods and begin to ascend Smith’s Hill along the course of the rill . . . Return by Mill Brook Ditch Path . . . The pond, Walden, has risen considerably since the melting.

  Dined at Tall’s Island . . .

  Returning stopped at Rice’s. He was feeding his chickens with Indian meal and water . . . Deacon Farrar’s meadow in time of flood (I had come through this) was a good place [to hunt turtles] . . .

  It began to sprinkle, and Rice said he had got “to bush that field” of grain before it rained, and I made haste back with a fair wind and umbrella for sail . . .

  P.M.—To Beeches.

  Young red maples are generally later to leaf than young sugar maples; hardly began before yesterday; and large white are not so forward as young sugar. Muhlenberg’s willow leafed for or five days. Young yellow birch leaf, say two days. In Callitriche Pool hear a bullfrog belch or dump. Is that a proserpinaea with finely divided leaves in this pool? Hear a tree-toad,—or maybe a woodpecker tapping . . .

  P.M.—Up river.

  Salix Babylonica behind Dodd’s, how long? Say with S. alba. I observe that the fertile flowers of many plants are more late than the barren ones . . .

  I went looking for snapping turtles over the meadow south of railroad. Now I see one large head like a, brown stake projecting three or four inches above the water four rods off, but it is slowly withdrawn, and I paddle tip and catch the fellow lying still in the dead grass there. Soon after I paddle within ten feet of one whose eyes like kncibs appear on the side of the stake, and touch him with my paddle . . .