A considerable fog. The weeds still covered by the flood, so that we have no Bidens Beckii. B. chrysanthemoides just out. The small, dull, lead-colored berries of the Viburnma dentatum now hang over the water. The Amphicarpa amonoica appears not to have bloomed . . .

  P.M.—To Conantum.

  This is by some considered the warmest day of the year thus far; but, though the weather is melting hot, yet the river having been deepened and cooled by the rains, we have none of those bathing days of July, ’52 . . . At the Swamp Bridge Brook, flocks of cow troopials now about the cows . . .