new yellow erigeron, very stout and eighteen inches high, on the shore of the lake." June 10 , still in the region of the two lakes, Thoreau notes:
A great deal of Tradescantia on the sloping, stony, and bushy lake-shore, some blue and some red or purple, from six to ten inches high. The Phlox pilosa in the open prairie is not long up; the tree-cranberry just fairly begun, as also the new viburnum. My Arabis must be lavigata, or the Turritis of Concord. I find the skullcap (Scutellaria parvula). The Salix pedicellaris in the meadow, and the Cypripedium spectabile is just springing up. The Rosa blanda about Mrs. Hamilton’s is not quite out; this is Mrs. Anderson’s "Prairie Rose." I come upon a third, fourth, and fifth nest of pigeons, with young,—the fourth not so high up (on a hop-hornbeam) as in the former nests,—say seven and a half feet high, and all much more substantially built, but made of the same-sized twigs as the first one. The last two nests were placed against the tree-trunk above a low branch or two. The
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