This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...as to be remarkable. It is not very common along our river, being mainly confined to the larger and wilder meadows, --at any rate to the expansions, be they larger or smaller. These phalanxes are from one to three or more rods wide, and the rush is of a glaucous green, very interesting with its shafts ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...as to be remarkable. It is not very common along our river, being mainly confined to the larger and wilder meadows, --at any rate to the expansions, be they larger or smaller. These phalanxes are from one to three or more rods wide, and the rush is of a glaucous green, very interesting with its shafts slanting different ways. At one bend, especially, grows--and I have not noticed it elsewhere except in this meadow--the great Scirpus fluviatilis (how long out?). Yet the leaves are not so roughish nor so long as described. The Arundo Phragmites is not nearly out, though quite tall. Spartina cynosuroides well out. The green pipes border the stream for long distances. The high water of the last month has left a whitish scum on the grass. We scare up eight or a dozen wood ducks, already about grown. The meadow is quite alive with them. What was that peculiar loud note from some invisible water-fowl near the Concord line? Any kind of plover? or clapper rail? H. Buttrick says he has shot a meadow-hen much larger than the small one here. I hear in the ridge the peculiar notes of, I think, the meadow-hen, --same e. g. sic where I got an egg and nest. The young are probably running there. Often hear it in the great Sud-bury meadow. See many young birds now, --blackbirds, swallows, kingbirds, etc., in the air. Even hear one link from a bobolink. I notice at Bittern Cliff that the sparganium floats upstream, /" probably because the wind has blown.i. thus. The bottom of Fair Haven Pond is very muddy. I can generally thrust a pole down three feet into it, and it may be very much deeper. Young pouts are an inch long, and in some ditches left high and dry and dead with the old. 1859 TRANSPLANTED BUTTON-BUSHES 233 July 11. Another hot day with blue haze, and...
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