Galim asprellum, probably about the 5th or 6th. The side-flowering scutellaria now. Hedge-nettle, a day or two. Lysimachia lanceolata var. hybrida, some days. Yellow lily now common (since the 4th). The large seed-vessels of the blue flag conspicuous. The rainbow rush has been in bloom for some time. Epilobium coloratum. A rough eupatorium budded at Hubbard’s burning. Ludwigia palustris, probably for ten days. Rubus Canadensis now. The red capsules of the Hypericum ellipticum begin to show in low lands. The cardinal-flower shows red. At Cardinal Shore a large Polygonum amphibium, seven feet long, left by the water, creeping over the shore and rooting in it at the joints; not yet in flower.
The bream poised over its sandy nest on waving fin - how aboriginal! So it has poised here and watched its ova before this new World was known to the Old. Still I see the little cavities of their nests along the shore.
Lycopus sinuatus, water horehound.
