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 budded, in the woods there; Lithospermum longiflorum by the lake, and other varieties of puccoon,—the Orchis spectabilis in the same woods; the Smilacina stellata, in flower in the swamp, with others more forward; a Prunus Americana, yet narrow-leaved, in bloom by the lake."

This was a noble crop for the two botanists. Before dining with the doctor, apparently, Thoreau had found on the prairie Osmorrhiza brevistylis and a Thaspium, of the variety apterum; and he adds, &quot;Dr. Charles L. Anderson [his host] has this variety, and also the Zizia aurea.&quot;

At the Minnehaha region, May 29, Thoreau found, &quot;A woolly senecio? not out; a Heuchera not out; an Artemisium? (with smell of summer savory) not budded; Corydalis aurea out; and by the river-side, Salix longifolia. Also Turritis stricta or Arabis lævigata, Astragalus distortus?—standard being notched, the tree cranberry, the Trillium cernuum, and the Triosteum perfoliatum,&quot;—to all three he adds the note &quot;not pressed,&quot; as if he made a habit of pressing all that he