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Looking under large oaks, black and white, the acorns appear to have fallen or been gathered by squirrels, etc I see in many distant places stout twigs (black or scarlet oak) three or four inches long which have been gnawed off by the squirrels, with four to seven acorns on each, and left on the ground . . .

  The skunk-cabbage’s checkered fruit (spadix), one three inches long; all parts of the flower but the anthers left and enlarged. Bidens cernua, or nodding burrmarigold, like a small sunflower (with rays) in Heywood Brook, i.e. beggar-tick. Bidens connata (?), without rays, in Hubbard’s Meadow. Blue-eyed grass still. Drooping neottia very common. I see some yellow butterflies and others occasionally and singly only. The smilax berries are mostly turned dark. I started a great bittern from the weeds at the swimming-place.

  P.M.—To Dugan’s . . .

  The present appearance of the solidago in Hosmer’s ditch which may be S. stricta is a stout erect red stem with entire, lanceolate, thick, fleshy, smooth sessile leaves above, gradually increasing in length downward till ten inches long and becoming toothed . . .

  Signs of frost last night in M. Miles’s cleared swamp . . .