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

4) compressed. Stile very short scarecly perceptible. Stigma — circular, concave.

Stems branched — 4 or 5 inch high — forming spikes of flowers — Blossoms in ye axils of ye leaves with scarcely any perceptable fruit-stalks. — Leaves lanceolate — intire — alternate rather fleshy. Bloss. white — not in the least tinged with any other colours. — Leaves broadest towards apex — blunt. Sessile. Segt of the Calex in form of ye leaves — deeply divided - nar= =row towards ye base — deep Green some wt fleshy — perminant — Every blossom sets in ye axilla of a leaf — My Garden — It is spicata — Spici laterali= =um.

July 10. Panicum Capillare Panic Grass Gen. Chr. accord well — Paniculata Panicle capillary — erect — spreading

5) The whole stem is hairy. Leaves broad at ye base — hairy — tapering to a point hairy on both sides. — frui-stem as fine as hairs Bloss. single. In gardens among corn — old fields —

Alopecurus pratensis Foxtail — Gen perfectly accord except seeds

Cal. Val. sharp pointed — Keels fringed — Valves hairy { 3 green stripes Cor. awned — Valve compressed opening at one edge. 6 green longitudinal stria or lines

Seeds ovato-oblong, com= =pressed — yellowish Articulato. of ye joints long roots fibrous In moist ground — between upland & meadow — Common

Anthoxanthum Cal. edges membranous or shiny — the inner valve em

6) embraces ye Corol.

Corol — Valves nearly equal — covered with short hairs — ye longest awn of ye length of ye longest valve of ye Calix. Upper part of ye stem somewhat hairy. Calex set with short hairs. Calex much longer yn blos. Upper part or apex of ye Corol. husky or skinny — nearly even. longest awn begins near ye base, jointed at apex of Corol — ye other begins near ye open of ye valv. upright Anthera some times Yellow & some times reddish, cloven at both ends. The skinny part of lower valve of calix embraces ye the other larger valve. Nectaria encloses ye seed. Straw some what striated Scattered hairs — Leaves some wt striated — thick at Bottom Grows in all kinds of soil — Common in mowing & pastures

7) May to Augst. Very little difference in ye smell of this grass from others

Phleum pratense Common Hard Grass Timothy. Herd-grass. Stokes —

Spikes cylindrical. Cal. uniflora bivalvis, oblonga, linearis, com= =pressa, apici bicuspide [descriceas?]. Valva=lis rectis concavis compressis (borders membranaceous) am= =plexantibus, aegnalileus, trun= =catis — (Carina ciliate ye whole length.) Apia mucronatis. Corol. 2 Val. bivalvis, calyx brevior. Valvula exterior amplexanti interiorem mino= =rem. (The larger valve apex divided into 3 small segts — ye segments pointed. — 3 green stria= — both valves membranaceous

The awns or points of ye Cal. are shorter than ye valves= [?]

8) The fring on ye keel — one row of long hairs — ye whole surface of both valves some what hairy Anth. forked at both ends — Threads or filat long — Anth — some times yellow & some times purple.

The spike has been found 5 or 6 inches long.

Straw cylindrical, striated erect hollow leaves rather broad, & pretty near together — joints short, swelled — commonly 6 or 8 in a straw, a leaf rises from each joint — leaves striated. The roots are always some wt bulbus — as ye straw ad= =vances to maturity the bulbs lessen — a runing root with many fibres goes out from ye bottom of ye bulb, & fibers round ye bottom of ye bulb. Several radical leaves — longer than those on ye stems.

Best grass for horses — Stokes call it [?]