Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823. Manasseh Cutler papers, 1782-1856. Book II. gra00062. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Botany Libraries, Harvard University.

42 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.

43 No. of flower stalks, in irregular circular form, several adhering as they rise from ye stalk.. On each of these pedicles stands an odd shaped leaf. size & shape in margin From ye center of these Pedicles of leaves, rises, or rather is a [drawing] continuance of ye stalk itself, tho. much smaller, a flower stalk one inch long, on wh stands a single flower.

This flower seems to be a species of yt wh found in B. Browns ground near ye Pond early in ye spring & is discribed in I Book — The lines as it is growing looks some what like Wood Sorrel — Grows in shaddy land.

Star Bush (MC.) 102

The flower is a long spike on ye top of ye stalk, which consist of a great number of distinct flowers on ye very short pedicles — ye petals turned quite back. But my Glass is not sufficient to discover any think distinct in ye disk of ye flower — It has an uneven redish appearance, seen thro ye lense. The spike is selendrical The

44 The stalk is erect, striated, hallow, of ye size of a pipe stem & some much larger, hallow from 6 inch to 4 feet high, with joints from 1 to 2 inch ap distanc From each joint rises a husky, leafy tubular leaf, ye margin divided into fine Stria or subulated petals. At each joint at after ye plant has rose some inches from ye ground (for ye lower joints have only this husky tube) are thrown of in form of a star, straw shaped, branched, 3 or 4 squar-leaves from 2.to 4 or 5 inch. long. These leaves are jointed & from these joints throw lateral leaves of ye same size & shape. These Whirle of leaves rise at first parallel to ye stalks & yn spread out horizontally or parpendicular to it. Grows in cold moist shady land & in ye borders of medows. makes a curious appearance. The Spike falls of soon after it has blown —

There is a nother species much like this — except yt ye leaves grow up more erect — have no lateral branches from ye joints ye leaves are larger & are 3 square, as I think ye others are, — ye stalk is not so erect

45 June 2d — No. 103. Dwarf-Dandalion — In woods — gravelly pond near ye side of pond dry land

Cal — Perianth — Cup — 11 or 12 acuminated segments — green —

Corol. A number of distinct flowers like ye dandalion Diam. disk. 1/2 inch — bright yellow.

Root — Small white fibres —

Leaves — a no. of root leaves — club-shaped irregular with bu 4 small notches — square uper part. Stalk, round-hairy, leaves oposite from ala arises flower stalks, ye stalk terminates in flower. Whole stalk about 3 inch — terminates in a flower

June 2d No. 104 — Candle Berries or Babaries —

The flowers a spike, each flower stands on a short pedicle under neath a single leaf. much liek grass — several flowers stand on ye same pedicle — this leaf is a kind of spathe. The flower too small to be examined by my glass — The spikes thrown off from ye limbs & ye leaves stand be low — no leaf with ye spikes. Wood a light brown. Grows about 4 or 5 feet high — branched

46 June 2d No. 105 Pickril Weed-found in our ponds —

Calix — a Single leaf — standing at ye head of ye flower stalk — ye claw, incloses 3/4 of ye stalks — no joint, but ye leaf seems to be a continuance of ye external bark, of ye stalk — This leaf expands & turns back at ye ye apex — it is oblong — ye margin even — ye upper disk white ye under green — smoth. terminating in a long round apex of an inch, beyound ye disk of ye leaf — The leaf is an inch & 1/4 broad & 3 or 4 inch long. of a considerable thickness soft & firm — feels much like very soft, close leather. The flower is a spike & in a continuan. of ye stalk — an inch beyound ye claws of ye leaf, on wh stands a large number of flower in a sylindrical form.

Cor. none — Stam — A number of white erect filaments arising from ye stalk of ye spike, between & in ye [sacuitus?] of ye made by ye Germana Anthera double, globular — stand on ye top & adhere to ye opposide sides of yr apex, & make ye Stam. rather longer yn ye Pistil.

Pistil. Germen, a Capsule con=taining a number of small seeds — no Style ye