Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823. Manasseh Cutler papers, 1782-1856. Book XII Descriptions and Notes on American indigenous plants by Manasseh Cutler. gra00062. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Botany Libraries, Harvard University.

39) Sept. 24 Bidesn frondosa Cuckold Accords well — except ye larger leaves are oblong lanceo= =late — & ye smaller — on ye upper part of ye stem — are lanceolate. Veins of ye leaves, depressed on ye upper surface, & projected n ye under — Linn. obs. in Sys Sp. Pl. perfectly accords, except are not lineata. Perhaps in some plants ya may be so — I suspect it from some of ye Spm from my garden, where they grow seperate & luxurious No-ligulate florets. Common in cornfields & cultivated ground

Seeds flatish. 2 awns. pricles hooked, down ward in 2 rows, out side & inside. little Tubercles Scattered over ye seeds. 2 Border of ye seeds fine hooked [prickles?]

Bidens Meadow Cuckold. Leaves much wilted doubt not is bipinnata. We have probably pilose.

Calyx frequently only 5 leaves.

Bidens ramosa. N. Sp. Meadow Cuckold This

40) (Perhaps this is a Coreopsis) This seems to be a species be= =tween pilosa & bipinnate. Differs from pilosa — in ye leaves being bipinnate & nearly free from hairs, the joints pilosis. & not barbatis — having 2 arista & not 4 — & ye rays yellow & not white.

Differs from bipinnate, in ye corolla being completely radiate, & never wanting & ye arista not 3 with a yt interme= =diate very long. but having only 2 with ye rudiments of 2 more wh are intermediate.

It is possible it may be a variety of ye bipinnate

Bidens ramosa — foliis bipinnatis incisis sublavibus caule geniculis pilosis, calycibus, involucro simplici, corall. radialis, Seminibus di= vergentibus, arist. duo.

Stems — Striated — generally reddish — nearly erect — much branched, & ye branches long.

Leaves — bipinnata. The 1st: pinna perfectly regular — The 2d. pinna Vide page 67 —

41) Sept. 24. Leontodon Autumnale

The Spc. Chr. perfectly accord — The plant much smaller yn ye [Turanecum?]. Bloss smaller Stems send off a no. of branches. Small scales on ye peduncles. Calyix tomentose — ____________

Sept. 26 Cacalia Suaveolens? Fire Weed —

The Gen. Chr. agree well, except — that ye Squama wh form ye cylinder are more than 10 often 2 — generally about 15 — The margin lapping & closely adhering, so as to form a tube. So qt. yt. Squama are not readily seperated. The out side of ye tube appears channelled, where ye Squama unite; on ye inside of ye tube ye Cupping of ye Squama are apparent. The Calyculutus, from 5 to 10 scattered sebaceous subulate leaves. The

42) The Calix is reflected when ye seeds are ripe — In some flowers ye pappus appears plumose — It is as longer yn ye Calyx ? longer yn ye florets —

The other parts appear to accord perfectly well.

It must either be a Cacalia, oe Chrysocoma or an Eupatorium. And most evi= =dently approaches much nearest to ye Cacalia. So that not with standing ye above differences I have no doubt about it.

Whether this species be C. Suaveolens is some what doubtful. But it approaches nearer than ye following.

The principle difference seems to be. The leaves are sessile & have no petioles. The leaf & large rib a are dilated on upper part of ye stalk. but ye lower leaves are nar= row at ye base.

I should

43) describe it.

C. Suaveolens — caule herbaceo, glabro, folliis hastato — sagittatis dentato-sinuatis in aequaliter dentatis, serratis, (petioles) (vel petioles — (vel basis) superne ditatatis.

The leaves vary much in ye form, on ye same stalk, —

There is a variety with — foliis lanceolatis dentatis Another — foliis dettato, hastatis, dentatis.

Some leaves on ye same plants with be almost entire, with onl a few sharp points on ye Margin. Some nearly Lyre shaped — some glentato= sinusatis, et serratis. & some quite irregular. All ye Specn of ye Cacalia now before me were collected from ye burnt places in my meadow. Where ye fire destroyed a great no. of Maples 2 years ago. The above species — Stems & leaves smooth & ye leaves at some difference from each other