. Through the year with Thoreau . [47:} will commonly be others. Carrying out this design,this afternoon, I had not taken three steps into theswamp barelegged before I found the Naumbergiathyrsiflora [tufted loosestrife] in sphagnum and water,which I had not seen growing before. Journal, ix, 4il. July 2, 1857. To Gowings Swamp. Calla palus-tris (with its convolute point like the cultivated) atthe south end of Gowings Swamp. Having foundthis in one place, I now find it in another. Many anobject is not seen, though it falls within the range ofour visual ray, because it does not come within thera
. Through the year with Thoreau . [47:} will commonly be others. Carrying out this design,this afternoon, I had not taken three steps into theswamp barelegged before I found the Naumbergiathyrsiflora [tufted loosestrife] in sphagnum and water,which I had not seen growing before. Journal, ix, 4il. July 2, 1857. To Gowings Swamp. Calla palus-tris (with its convolute point like the cultivated) atthe south end of Gowings Swamp. Having foundthis in one place, I now find it in another. Many anobject is not seen, though it falls within the range ofour visual ray, because it does not come within therange of our intellectual eye, , we are not lookingfor it. So, in the largest sense, we find only the worldwe look for. Journal, ix, 466. C 48 ]GREAT FRINGED ORCHIS June 8, 1854. Find the great fringed orchis outapparently two or three days. Two are almost fullyout, two or three only budded. A large spike of pe-culiarly delicate pale-purple flowers growing in theluxuriant and shady swamp amid hellebores, ferns,golden senecios,
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