31 July 1854 – 6 August 1854

Blue-curls. Wood thrush still sings. Des- modium rotundifolium. Lespedeza hirta, say 26th, at Heywood Peak.

6a. M. On river. — Bidens Becki. Bass probably out of bloom about a week. Corallorhiza, some days at Fair Haven Pond. P. M. — To Peter’s. Sunflower. Meadow-haying begun for a week. Erechthites, begun for four or five days in Moore’s Swamp. ‘Two turtle doves in the stubble beyond. Hie- ractum Canadense, apparently a day or two. Do not see stamens of thyme-leaved pinweed, but perhaps petals. Ground-nut well out.

Wednesday. Surveying in Lincoln. Solidago lanceolata, two or three days. Decodon. Polygonum arifolium in swamp. Chenopodium hybri- . dum probably now open. Surveyed east part of Lin- coln. 5 p. M. — To Conantum on foot.

Saturday. 8.30 a. m.— By boat to Core- opsis Bend. A general fog in the morning, dispersed by 8 o’clock. At first the air still and water smooth, afterward a little breeze from time to time, — judging from my sail, from the north-northeast. A platoon of haymakers has just attacked the meadow-grass in the Wheeler meadow.

P. M.— To Tarbell Hills by boat.