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![SknkCbg.jpg - A pleasant afternoon, cool wind but warm sun. Snow almost all gone. The yellowlily leaves are pushing up in the ditch beyond Hubbard’s Grove [. . .], hard-rolled andtriangular, with a sharp point with which to pierce the mud, green at the tips and yellowbelow. The leaf is rolled in from both sides to the midrib. This is, perhaps, to be regardedas the most obvious sign of advancing spring, for the skunk-cabbage may be seenin warm weather in January. The latter is the first conspicuous growth on the surface. Itnow shows its agreeably variegated, not yet unfolded, leaves in the meadows. Saw deadfrogs, and the mud stirred by a living one, in this ditch, and afterward in ConantumBrook a living frog, the first of the season, also a yellow-spotted tortoise by the causewayside in the meadow near Hubbard’s Bridge. Fresh-looking caddis-worm cases in the ditch. The smoky maple swamps have now got a reddish tinge from their expanding buds. March 28, 1852](SknkCbg.jpg) |
| Flowering Skunk Cabbage | A pleasant afternoon, cool wind but warm sun. Snow almost all gone. The yellow
lily leaves are pushing up in the ditch beyond Hubbard’s Grove [. . .], hard-rolled and
triangular, with a sharp point with which to pierce the mud, green at the tips and yellow
below. The leaf is rolled in from both sides to the midrib. This is, perhaps, to be regarded
as the most obvious sign of advancing spring, for the skunk-cabbage may be seen
in warm weather in January. The latter is the first conspicuous growth on the surface. It
now shows its agreeably variegated, not yet unfolded, leaves in the meadows. Saw dead
frogs, and the mud stirred by a living one, in this ditch, and afterward in Conantum
Brook a living frog, the first of the season, also a yellow-spotted tortoise by the causeway
side in the meadow near Hubbard’s Bridge. Fresh-looking caddis-worm cases in the ditch. The smoky maple swamps have now got a reddish tinge from their expanding buds. March 28, 1852 |
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