longifolium? or nutans? Symphoricarpus very forward. Anemone, pistils few, plant smooth and six to twelve inches high, in flower. Allosorus gracilis?
The puccoon, as in Michigan and Illinois, the showiest flower now.
May 28, in Minneapolis, Thoreau dined with Dr. Anderson, and in the afternoon rode with him to Lake Calhoun, four miles south, where they saw "the scarlet oak (Quercus palustris) with its fallen acorns by the lake; the Viola pubescens or dentata? budded, the Amorpha (which kind?) fruticosa? on the lake shore, the Amelanchier (which variety?) quite downy—the cottonwood with a black excrescence; the Symphoricarpus occidentalis (?) with dry fruit; the Uvularia grandiflora, the Prunus Americana (white flowered), sometimes purple, Dr. A. says; the Populus heterophylla, variety aspenoides, says Anderson; the Betula pumila in the larch swamp; the Rhamnus alnifolius, the Rubus triflorus, the Salix candida in fruit in the same swamp; by the lake, Geranium maculatum, just out; Lonicera, the parviflora,
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