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

97 Pistil — Stile of ye length & size of ye shorter filaments & lies between them Sl? close to ye upper lip. Stigma bifid

S. Vesel — none Seeds — 4 — naked — ovate, stand at ye base of ye Cup.

Root tuberous & fibrated

Stalk — round with 2 opposit deep groves — 4 or 5 inch high, Leaves stand opposite in pairs — on long pedicles between ovate & oblong — Radicle leaves bon on long pedicles dentated. The blossom is a bright purple. Vide Hill & Withering.

June 12 — No. 136 A species of Solomons seal — Flower so far gone as not to be able to examin it. with accuracy

Calyx. none — Corol — The petals white nearly obicular oblong Corol — Perianth 5. deep oblong segments white

98 white, closes closes upon ye seed after blown —

Stam — 6 short erect filaments, filaform anthera globular — one stria —

Pistil — Germen wh is a berry nerly globular with 4 stria — — Style, cylind — short. Stigma small, bifid or trifid — but not certain.

Root — Cylind — creaping, size pipe stem with a vast number of white fibres sent off in every directo. size pipe stem — white

Stalk — 10 or 12 inch high, erect, slightly striated, prety hard — naked towards from the root same way — there ye leaves stand thick alternate & on opposite sides — no branch — Base of ye leaf almost emcompassing ye stalks — long ovate — accuminated very smoth thick, nervose —

Flowers stand on short pedicles along ye top of ye stalk in an open erect spike —

Grows on sea shore near ye fort in Beverly.

99 Jun2 12th No. 137 — Laurel — wh seems to be Kulmia or Kalmia of Lee — The Dwaf Laurel of America — Decand Monog — But can not find it in Hill —

Calyx — small perianth — perminant, 5 acuminated, erect segments, hairy.

Corol. Tubular — salver shaped — ie — it rises tubular as high as high as ye segt of ye calyx, & yn spreads out into broad base, & turns up like a deep rimed large salver — Margin 5 very shallow segments — The segments seem ye 2 top of 5 blunt petals within small rising point in ye middle — The sinuses very shallow. One of sinuses bowever or rather a slit extends quite down to ye bottom of ye tube, & so opening of it — but this sinus is not found in all & never perceived until by bare inspection. The nectaria is a number of small spots round ye mouth of ye tubular part of ye corol. where ye base

100 base of ye salver spreads out — — Salver 3/10 inch diam. between a murry & Peach. blossom colour.

Stam — 10 subulated, equa distant, reflected filaments rising from ye germen — with broad base — Anthera orbicular & concave. The anthera is pressed back agst ye ye rim of ye tube below ye mergin & just above when ye curve, so as to make a deep indent wh is promonent on ye out side. And appear in ye flower like somany dark spects, being of a dark colour

Pistil — Germen within ye perianth — Style cylind — erect, longer yn ye tube — Stigma Capitated —

Seed

Roots, woody — divaricated

It is a ramose shrub — 2 feet high — Leaves oblong thick smooth — stand triangular, on long pedicales & hang dowards ye branch. The

101 flowers stand on pedicles arising triangular from ye branch, each of the pedicales yt rise from ye stalk send off numerous shorter pedicles on wh stands a single flower These flowers stand with ye disks nerly perpendicular with ye horiner & form a most butiful large cylindrical spike a long ye stalk about 2/3ds of ye way up from ye botton to ye top — for branch extends beyound ye spike & sends off green leaves as below —

Famoous for killing sheep

Jun 12th No. 138 Indian Cucumber. Hexndria Trigyn.

Calyx — none