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

62 Root — Numerous cylindrical white, larg large fibres, spreading fibres —

Leaves — Only 2 broad — obtuse, oblong Two oblong embracing stalks nervose leaves embracing each other, Stand 6 inch long & 3 broad — stand oposit, on pedicles, 2 inch long — from Their center rise The Stalk cylindrical — erect untill it arises at ye Capsule wh bends over, & ye disk of ye flower is dowards —

Grows plentifuly in ye farm in upper swamp — & in many woodsy — moist places.

June 6th No. 114 — Crane's-Bill — Geranium Decand. Monog. 10 A anthera flowers purple leaves — stalks branched. Leaves lobed, deeply serrated — deep vains upper side promanant under — See Withering well described

63 June 6, No. 115 — Large Yellow Violet Syng — Polyg — Mongam — Vide Hill & Withering —

Petals Corol. yellow, under leaf veined with with black or deep purple the others very small fine stroke or veins of purple. The horn or spur is very blunt & short —

Root — fibrous — Stalk round hairy as large as a pipe stem 8 or 10 inch high — Leaves Cordate — 4 inch wide 4 1/2 long — large veins, deep upper & promonent underside — indented stand single on ye stalk with long pedicles — 2 small ovate leves at ye ala one on each side ye pedicle — from ye ala rises ye flower stalk, small round 2 inch long on wh stands flower Capsule triang — seeds numerous, ovate white — as large as mustard adhering to ye angles of ye capsule —

This is a very large & beautiful species of ye Violet Grows in shady woods — rich soil — found it at John Woodberys

64 June 6th No. 116 — Dwarf Snake-weed. (MC) found in John Woodbery's woods — Dioecia Polyand —

Male Flower — Calex — none — unless ye Corol. wh is but a little coloured — & in only of a light green — be ye Calix

Corol — 6 petals, some only 4 or 5 — ovate very small, deciduous —

Stam — very numerous fine long thread, Anth. very long, flatish & hollow inside stria outside — ye threads inserted at ye end — The anthera all hang down from ye long hair filements & constantly play in ye wind.

Femalie Flower — no Calix or corol. in those I exam — perhaps fallen —

Germ. bunch of oblong or rather oval striated seeds from 4 to 8 or 10 — fastened to ye recepticle which is very small & stand in a globular from —

Style filiform

Stigma small crooked bent —

65 Root — fibrous —

Stalk round hard, hallow — size pipe stem — excedingly branched & jointed — at each joint of ye main stalk are sent off leafy branches — ye Pedicles of which inclose ye branch & form a kind of knob — with a leafy or husky apendage surounding ye stalk on ye uper part forming a cavaty from wh ye stalk seems to rise still higher From these Cavities in ye ala of ye leaf branch rise ye flower stalks wh also send of leafy branches The leaf branches wh rise from ye main stalks are again divided into 3 branhes & sub-divided. The leaves are winged with an odd one — the leaves having long pedicles

The leaves have not an it intirely regular form — Approachn. to a roundish form. having 2 deep sinuses — towards ye apex — which is blunt, & 2 dents on each side — & an in dent below each sinus — [drawing] The flower pedicles are long & a number [drawing] arise from ye same center.

66 The Plant grows 18 inch or 2 feet high of deep green — & has much ye appearance of the snake weed —

June 6th No. 117 — Meadow Scabious — (MC) Decand. Digyn. — Saponaria —

Calix — Perianth — below Germena parm =nant divided into 5 segments — reflected quite to ye stalk —

Corol. 5 oblong strap shaped acuminite small, spreading patent Petals — with narrow ungus. deciduous

Stam — 10 subulated, spreading, strait, filam. shorter yn ye petals of ye Corol — Anth. globular, small —

Pistil — double Germina within ye perianth swelled — Style 2 short, turned reclining from each other — Stigma very small.

Seed — Germina a double Capsule containing a great Number of cylindrical or ovate, seeds — seem to be covered with small tubicles —

Root — divaricated with many small fibres —