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Book IX
A Description of American indigenous Plants
By Manasseh Cutler 1789
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1) 1789 May 4 Liquidambar. { monoc. [Monoecia] Polyan. [Polyandria] { Lin No. 1076 Sweet Fern —
I can find nothing like an Involu. nor wt will answer to ye 4 leaves — ye are caducious —
The following is ye most accurate discription I can give in its present State — possibly ye involu. com. may be fallen, but I can see no vestages of them having been — any — ye last year year's leaf remains below & close to ye base of ye Catkin —
Masuli Filos — are numerous in a some wt. conical, long, & some wt loose Amentum.
Cal — Ament com. imbrecated on all sides consisting of Scales — each Scale has one flower — ye Scale triang — ye angle acute — apex acute — concave — border same wt ragged or torn hary husky — ye scale thick set with yellow granula — hallow hull way up from ye base; & therefore may [drawing scale] possibly be a nut. like yt of fig. poplar. The scales are large & [seem?] to be some wt. notched near ye apex —
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2) Corol — none — Stam 4 very short filamt — thread shaped in a body — anth. Lunet shaped — erect — twin — 4 furrowed & 2 celled -—
Fem. Filos — a globular ament, a little below ye base of ye male spike or katkin, consisting of imbricated scales, like ye male —
Can find nothing like an involu. unless some of ye first scales, in wh. I find no stiles, tho^. ye appearance of a Germ. perhaps stiles and yet out — These scales of ye same form as ye others so ye same size.
Cal. Perianth — one scale — circular — con cave, hairy, tubular at ye base— margins husky — some wt uneven & a very little acuminated at apex. [drawing Scale ] angles at ye base turned down a little — yellow Verrucosa or Gland —
Corol -- none
Pist. Germ oblong. adjoined to ye Perian — Stiles 2 — subulate. Stigmata joined to these are any length of ye
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3) Stile, & recurved (& downy credo)
Percarp.
Sem —
I believe ye pericarp & Sem — ye same as Lin. but ya were not far eno^. advanced to exam. —
The most essential difference seems to be yt it has a perianth of one leaf or scale instid of 4 leafs com. in volu — The peri= =anth of ye Female can not be companl. for ye hollow has no apparent open. — if it opens any whare it is at ye base of ye Scale — Wish to exam further