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The leaves 6 inch high — flower stalks
only 4 or 5. — of bright green —
This grass grows in moist &
bushy land — Quarle's Field —
Appears somewhat like the
4. o'clock plant or Sleep at Noon.

May 31st. No. 101 —
White flower in Quarle's field

Cal. None —
Corol — 6 & sometimes more patent, white, oval,
petl. (wh is Perianth) narrow ungues.

Stam — Numerous filiform, erect filaments
rising from ye receptical a little above
ye claws of ye petl. & make a compleat
row round. Anthera, oblong-erect, with
2 deep fissures on 2 opposite sides.

Pistil. Germana — a number of oblong
pods, containing small seeds — no Style
— Stigma very small on ye apex of
each pod.
The petals are of a milk white,
ye filaments, anthera & German yellow.

Root — not exam:d

Stalk — round, hard, redish, rises 6 or 7 inch — &
throws off from a kind of joint a large
No.

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