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

77 brown seeds —

Root — very small spreading — Stalk 4 or 5 inch high — procumbent, jointed, sends off 2 linnear leaves in pairs at each from ye ye ala of these leaves, & at ye terminao. of ye stalks, a small beauti=ful purple flower, yellow stam & Anther Grows in ye field among grass —

June 7th No. 124 — Small white flower found in my Pasture under alder Brushes — Arenaria. New Species

Calix — Perianth — parminant. 5 leaves divid 5 concave short segments, erect — parminent

Corol — 5 oblong, blunt at apex white petals inserted into receptical within ye cups patent snow white

Stam — 10 filiform erect filaments, hairy at base anthera globular, depressed

Pistil — Germ. globular within petals — Styles 3. crooked spreading [grow around?] each other — Stigma extrem small

Seeds Capsule ovate 1 Cell cont. / many small ovate seeds

Root small filament — stalk small 3 or 4 inch high, leaves oblong, blunt stand in pairs, sessile flow on pedicles from ala

78 ala of ye leaves, & of stalk terminates in flower — The flow small snow white Common in woods —

June 7th No. 125 — Hairy stalk small white flower — found in my pasture & in woods

Cal — Perianth [ativided?] 5 oblong accuminated leaves erect hary — perminant

Corol — 5 — oblong, white petal with a deep sinus in apex — erect —

Stam — 10 subulated erect filament petals — anth — globular

Pistil — Germen within Cup — Styles 5 spreading — Stigma small — or yn maybe no style & ye Stigma quadrified —

Seed Capsule globular, very small contain Numerous very small seeds —

Root — very small spreading fibres — Stalk small hairy from 5

79 5 to 10 or 12 inch high [dulingery] hairy leaves stand in pairs at joints — strap shaped — hairy, Flowers stand in clusters on ye top of ye stalk — on short pedicles — but one generally rises & blooms at a time, & so ye other flower but rise in succesion Common among bushes —

June 7th No. 126 White umbellated flow — Ben Brown field over River —

Calix — none

Corol — Bell-shaped, green tube — apex limb divided into 5 accuminated, patent white segments —

Stam — 5 subulated filaments, erect, inserted into ye mergin of ye tube between ye segments of ye limb. Anthera small globular — filam. shorter

Pistil — cylindrical Style, rising from ye botton of ye tube, where ye fruit stands as high on ye cup or tube — Stigma capitated —

Seed Capsule below ye tube, very small but contains a No. of seeds very small

Root of ye size of a straw sylindrical &

80 white roots & runs along just under ye surface of ye ground The stalk arises immediately out of ye upper side of this root with out any joint or nob — 8 or 10 inch high — round firm, No radical leaves — stalk leaves stand alternate, oblong, thick smoth Branches rise from ye ala towards ye top — at ye top of ye stalk, & from ala of upper leaves stand flower pedicles & a cluster of ye flowers stand to gether rising on very short pedicles rising from a common center in form of an umbell. The flower is small, white & a tuft of them make a prety appearance —

Plenty among bushies & in old fields.

June 7th No. 127 Piggen-Berry-Bush on ye banks of ye river — & in swamps

Calix, & extremly small perianth — which seems to be a continuao. of a divided into 4, scarce descernable segment — these small segments seem to be only ye continuance of ye outer green covering

81 of ye fruit forming a margin, sending of four very short & small segements, permi= nent.

Calix — 4 ovate, white, patent petals. inserted within ye Cup.

Stam — 4 filiform erect spreading filaments of twice ye length of ye petals. Anthera cylin oblong, depressed erect —

Pistil — The fruit is a berry below ye corrol. But ye top of this berry seems to have a flower cup, within which are ye petals of ye corol, above the claws of ye petals is a protuberance of ye berry which appears, when ye flower is blown like a proper Germen, round & flatish on ye top from ye center rises a single cylindrical Style, less yn 1/2 ye length of ye filaments. (perhaps this Germen ought not to be taken notice of ). Stigma, sessile

Fruit — a Berry, orbicr-compressed — red or green when ripe of ye size of a garden pea & near nearly round & pale blue — one round-seed in ye pulp. large.

Roots — like common Bushes. This Bush or shrub grows to ye hight of ye 6 or 8 feet — excedingly branched, not more yn an inch in diameter near ye ground — The bark is a redish colour, especially ye small