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LADY'S-SLIPPERS 



June 5, 1856. Everywhere now in dry pitch pine 

 woods stand the red lady's-shppers over the red pine 

 leaves on the forest floor, rejoicing in June, with 

 their two broad curving green leaves, — some even 

 in swamps, — upholding their rich, striped, red, 

 drooping sacks. 



Journal, viii, 365. 



WILD CALLA LILY {CALLA PALUSTRIS) 



June 7, 1857. To river and Ponkawtasset with 

 M. Pratt. 



Pratt has got the Calla palustris, in prime, — some 

 was withering, so it may have been out ten days, — 

 from the bog near Bateman's Pond; also Oxalis 

 violacea, which he says began about last Sunday. 



Journal, ix, 409. 



June 9, 1857. To Violet Sorrel and Calla Swamp. ^ 

 The calla is generally past prime and going to seed. 



I had said to Pratt, "It will be worth the while 

 to look for other rare plants in Calla Swamp, for I 

 have observed that where one rare plant grows there 



' This illustrates Thoreau's habit of giving names of. his own choosing 

 to certain localities in Concord, the particular names oftentimes being 

 suggested by the discovery of some rare plant, as in this case. Minot 

 Pratt was a devoted lover of plants and introduced a number of wild 

 species not previously found in Concord. He was one of the few residents 

 of Concord who appreciated Thoreau's outdoor studies. H. W. G. 



