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

82 smaller twigs — The leaves stand generally opposit, & out of ye ala send out other leave brances # — but the leaves to not allways stand regular. The top of ye small twigs terminate in flower stalk wh send of many branchs, & shorter pedicles on which stand many small flowers — The flowers stand very close togeth & form an even umbell — only by ye flower — pedicles do not all rise from ye same center, & yr is no appearance of an involucrum. The diameter of ye disk of some of ye umbells is 3 or 4 inches. And are formed & look much like ye clusters of elder flowers. Piggons Pidgeons & other birds are fond of these berries. The Bushes grow in large bunches & some times spread over many roods of ground on mudy banks of rivers & in wet swamps — It delights in wet ground & seems to be of ye tribe of willows —

# The leaf is oblong deeply marked with ribs — all inclinging towards ye apex & have ye appearan of nervose ye least small ribs numerous & run from ye lateral ribs — one to another in strait lines & cann? of — 2 1/2 inch long &

83 & one inch broad, short pedicles — & accuminated at apex — [drawing]

June 9th No. 128 — Yellow Water Lily, Nymphea Polyand. Monogy.

Calyx. 3 orbicular, concave green leaves, with a tinge of yellow at their apecies

Corol 3 bright yellow, obicular, concave petals — remainder well described by Hill — Anthera filaments all reflected — Anthera small

June 9th No. 129 — Saracena, Polyand Monogy

Calyx — Double perianth — The lower 3 small, oval, leaves — The upper 5 large suboval leaves, both an of a very dark crimson colour.

Corol — 5 of an oval figure Petals contracted

84 contracted in ye midle by means of pentagular, [lypeated?] Stigma & forming ye petal of a double oval figure or into 2 distinct ovals — Or may be thus discribed — long oval ungues, 5 oval petals, con= tracted above where ye petals turn over ye ungues Stigma — ye ungues below oblong & 1 leaf above of on an oval figure — of a beautiful crimson colour — covering ye Stam. & bent inward on ye Stigma.

Stam — filaments numerous filiform erect — Anthera, oblong, depressed horizontal, filaments inserted into ye center of ye sides of ye Anth —

Pistil. Germen roundish, style cylindric= =cal, & short. The stigma, parminent, it is lypeated, peltate, pentagular, & covers ye stamina — 5 ribs are sent off from ye apex of ye style along ye pelta-to each corner — where they are prom turned down — extend beyound ye pentagular leaf — & pendent — here they have ye appearance of 5 distinct cylindrical Stigma, which are pendent Or The

85 The 5 ribs wh are sent a long ye leafy stigma from ye center to each angle, extend be yound the leafy substance & are pendent.

Seeds — Capsule — Agreeable to Hill —

Root — from the head of ye root are sent off are large number of hard brown slender fibres spreading every way. f From ye head rises 5 or 6 leaves imbrasing one a= =nother with their pedicles — A No. of these bunches grow in a compact cluster, & from ye center of each Leaves head rises a flower stalk. The leaves are of a very odd & curious form — a little above their ungues they become Tubular, swelling as they rise, but some what contracted 2/3 of ye way to ye apex, where they gradually contract, some what resembling cone — The diameter of some in ye gibbose part 1 1/2 inch & 3 1/2 from ye rim to ye bottom of ye tube. The leaves stand patent & on ye upper side is a foliatious, oblong

86 oblong appendage which extends from ye pedicle ot ye mergin of ye Cup — erect 1 inch wide 3 1/2 long — The mergin is circular, on ye under side of ye mergin is a nother foliatious appendage or continua. of ye leaf, extending 2/3ds round ye mergin & moveable inside hairy. The other part of ye mergen & this appendage hath a rim upon their mergin much like that of ye rim of a tin vessel — The flat leaves mentioned by Hill I have never seen.

The stalks are round smooth naked about a foot high. On ye top stands a single flower, with ye disk turned toward ye ground — more than 2 inch in diam — And of a globlular appearance.

This is a most curious & beautiful flower