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, "Dr. Charles L. Anderson [his host] has this variety, and also the Zizia aurea."
At the Minnehaha region, May 29, Thoreau found, "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,"—to all three he adds the note "not pressed," as if he made a habit of pressing all that he
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