Thoreau writes in his journal:
In Concord. The elm leaves are falling. The fringed gentian was out before Sunday; was (some of it) withered then, says Edith Emerson (Journal, 5:433).
Concord, Mass. Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his brother William:
My two plants the deerberry vaccinium stamineum and the golden flower Chrysopsis – [falcata], were eagerly greeted here. Henry Thoreau could hardly suppress his indignation that I should bring him a berry he had not seen . . .
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 4:388)
