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

87 June 9th No. 130 Burr weed, — like Sinacle & leaves like butter Cups Crains bill — Monoecia Pentandria

Calyx — Barren flowers —

Calyx — Common involucrum divided into a No. of small segments. Or rather a common Calix, common to many florets, male & female — each of ye florets rising on short pedicles from ye common recepticle.

Barron flowers Calyx — 5 oblong erect accuminated petals — inclined inward —

Corol — 5 oblong petals, doubled inward on ye disk of ye flower — very small & of a pale green colour, covering

Stam. 5 subulated, long [futa?], they rise doubled — & ye curved par of ye between ye curved petals, ye doubled part appears & rises some hight before some time before The anthera appears But at length ye anthera rises from beneath ye curved peetal, & ye filament become erect, & a little spreading. very long. Anthera, Oblong, erect —

88 Fertile flowers, hermophrodite. The same as ye Male, except that the pedicle is imbricated & shorter — having 5 Stamina ye same as ye other & is

Pistil 2 long, filiform spreading Styles Stigma, extremely small

Seed believe 2 small obicular seeds —

Root — consist of a numbe rof very small fibres

Leaves Stalk. Slightly bluntly angular, smoth, rises. 2 Feet high. From at the root rises a It has a ridicle round footLeaf stalk embrasing ye flower stalk at ye head of ye root — 2 or 3 inch — high. The leaf stellate consisting of 5 oblong serrated petal leaves or lobs, one or 2 of them having a deep sinus, & large ribs runing up into each of them as tho. they were distinct leaves, ye ungues of ye other are not perfectly distinct but ye

89 ye main ribs are. They spread equally each way, except that between 2 of them ye opening is rather wider yn ye rest. On ye ye stalk are one or two set of five leaves sent off from a common short ungus pedicle, which imbraces one half of ye diam. of ye stalks — At ye top from a set of stellate leaves of unequal sizes, are sent of several short pedicles on wh stand ye flowers in form of a bur of a lightish green colour, & ye size of a pistel ball. It is a curious flower — not very showey — grows very frequent on sides of fields in ye edge of Bushes —

June 10th No. 131. Small Branched Weed from Dr. Whipples Woods — Didynamia Angiosperm. Cow. Wheat

Calyx — cylind — tube — small — 4 segments accuminate—

Corol — cylind — tube, ringent, longer yn Cup — upper lip

90 lip— compressed — hary inside of mergin — Lower lip. 3 segt ye middle one ye narrowest — The Tube white lips yellow.

Stam — 4 filiform filaments, shorer yn tubes — 2 a little & but very little shorter yn ye other — Anthera oblong orbicular, com= =pressed, concealed under ye uper lip — & adhering.

Pistil — Style filiform very small runs a long ye canal of ye uper lip closely adhering, bent at apex, Stigma a very small — Stile longer yn filaments, but shorter yn tube & lays ben ye uper lip & ye filament —

Seeds — 2. oblong — blunt, compressed — hairy — contined in a short acuminated flat capsule

Root — Small fibrous, hard —

Stem — rise single, round hard very short hairs —

Leaves — no radical leaves — stand on stalk in pairs. lower pair club shaped — Uper leaves in pairs ovate, accuminated short pedicles — Branches rise from ala — some way up ye stalk — but in ye upper ala stand

91 stand solotary flowers, short pedicles & bent from ye ala at right. angles with stalk

This Plant grows 8. or 10 inch high — in rich wood land & borders of wet mowing land —