{"id":277,"date":"2007-06-24T14:01:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T18:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2007\/06\/24\/middlesex-fells-june-10th\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T13:09:44","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T17:09:44","slug":"middlesex-fells-june-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2007\/06\/24\/middlesex-fells-june-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesex Fells, June 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually most of the cool stuff I saw was at the big park which runs along the North bank of the Mystic.  I didn&#8217;t write anything down and feel sure that I&#8217;ve forgotten some interesting things, but here&#8217;s what I remember:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Garden Lupine (<i>Lupinus polyphyllus<\/i>) (pea family) &#8211; I&#8217;ve seen this streaking past when I&#8217;ve driven on the pike, but the Mystic-side park was the first chance I had to sit down and look at it.  It was between a paved path and some riverbank type stuff; phragmites, I think.<\/li>\n<li>Indian Cucumber Root (<i>Medeola virginiana<\/i>) (lily family) &#8211; In the northern part of the Fells, probably along the Crystal Springs trail.  Nifty flowers, vaguely holisticly reminiscent of bittersweet nightshade or something.  I didn&#8217;t want to look at the root, since there were only a few and I don&#8217;t much like pulling anything up anyways.<\/li>\n<li>Golden Alexanders (<i>Zizia aurea<\/i>) (parsley family) &#8211; These were growing in a lovely meadow, deserving of many hours&#8217; further exploration, in the Mystic-side park.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>IMPORTANT UPDATE (2007-7-11)<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fragrant Sumac (<i>Rhus aromatica<\/i>) (cashew family) &#8211; This stuff smelled awesome.  It was growing on a path-edge at the Mystic park, next to some staghorn sumac.  I got a picture of them together to blow my own mind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually most of the cool stuff I saw was at the big park which runs along the North bank of the Mystic. I didn&#8217;t write anything down and feel sure that I&#8217;ve forgotten some interesting things, but here&#8217;s what I remember: Garden Lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus) (pea family) &#8211; I&#8217;ve seen this streaking past when I&#8217;ve [&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-277","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\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}