Thoreau writes in his journal:
It requires a different intention of the eye in the same locality to see different plants, as, for example, Juncacew and Graminew even;i.e.,I find that when I am looking for the former, I do not see the latter in their midst . . .
Rice says he saw two meadow-hens when getting his hay in Sudbury some two months ago, and that they breed there . . .