{"id":264,"date":"2006-07-08T21:11:46","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T01:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2006\/07\/08\/eagle-island-july-5-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-07-17T19:53:04","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T23:53:04","slug":"eagle-island-july-5-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2006\/07\/08\/eagle-island-july-5-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagle Island, July 5, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>agrimony (<em>Agrimonia gryposepala<\/em>) (rose family) &#8211; I&#8217;ve always liked this one&#8217;s name.  Its leaves were sticky beneath and had a pleasant smell.  I guess I should take the name to mean it has hook-nosed or, more generally, curved sepals, but I didn&#8217;t look carefully.<\/li>\n<li>rough bedstraw (<em>Galium asprellum<\/em>) (madder family) &#8211; This and the following were growing right near each other and the agrimony, along the wood border at the back of the big lawn by the public dock.  I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;d seen this before, but I hadn&#8217;t quite straightened out the distinction between it and cleavers.<\/li>\n<li>marsh bedstraw (<em>Galium palustre<\/em>) (madder family)<\/li>\n<li>blue vervain (<em>Verbena hastata<\/em>) (vervain family) &#8211; I would venture to guess that verbena would be the more recognizable name these days, what with lemon verbena cropping up in herbal teas and such.  This plant&#8217;s leaves had an ill smell &#8211; something like bittersweet nightshade, as best I can recall.<\/li>\n<li>tall nettle (<em>Urtica procera<\/em>) (nettle family) &#8211; I remember getting stung when I was a kid by what was assumed afterward to be a nettle.  It was fiercely painful.  I let this one brush the back of my hand and got a genuinely painful but by no means overwhelming immediate sting and protracted burn.  One little white lump, so I suppose I only got one stinger in me.<\/li>\n<li>common St. Johnswort (<em>Hypericum perforatum<\/em>) (St. Johnswort family) &#8211; This is easily distinguishable from the following by the size of the leaves, which I failed to pick up on last season.  Even that was better than the previous season, when I somehow failed to notice any of this common weed at all.<\/li>\n<li>spotted St. Johnswort (<em>Hypericum punctatum<\/em>) (St. Johnswort family)<\/li>\n<li>stout blue-eyed grass (<em>Sisyrinchium angustifolium<\/em>) (iris family) &#8211; &#8220;Stout&#8221; is a strange kind of translation of &#8220;angustifolium&#8221;, which would normally come out something like &#8220;narrowleaf&#8221;, but stout is what Newcomb&#8217;s calls it.  This one&#8217;s stem\/leaf was, in fact, stoutish (over 1\/8 in.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>agrimony (Agrimonia gryposepala) (rose family) &#8211; I&#8217;ve always liked this one&#8217;s name. Its leaves were sticky beneath and had a pleasant smell. I guess I should take the name to mean it has hook-nosed or, more generally, curved sepals, but I didn&#8217;t look carefully. rough bedstraw (Galium asprellum) (madder family) &#8211; This and the following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}