before dinner. At Redwood Thoreau and Mann had found these plants:
A broad-leaved sedge on the slope of the river-bank; a smooth, parsnip-smelling plant in a ravine. On the slope, too, a tall, rather loose-spreading panicled grass, the geum, not yet out; another, with yellow petals shorter than the calyx, slightly notched on the right. On the prairie a coarse (greenish white) boraginaceous plant (Onosmodium?); a yellow composite flower (three feet high, some of it), eight-rayed. I find no account of it in Gray. A much-branched, hard-stemmed, linear-leafed green plant was found on the prairie,—a prinos, no doubt. Two whitish, wormwood-like plants on the prairie,—broader and entire-leafed lower down. The common spiked grass of the prairie, and a more drooping kind. (Kœleria cristata, or perhaps Eatonia obtusata.)
The large-flowered Rudbeckia-like flower of prairie, Heliopsis lævis. The delicate wormwood-like, five-lobed blue-corollaed, scented and reniform plant on the slope, under other weeds. Mann brought from farther
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