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.

145) very minute green body, with ye styles inserted, one on each side, just below ye apex. Styles & stigmata dark red, or purple.

On each side ye Germ. rises on oblong, compressed body, of a twice as long as ye Germen. These may be capsules described by Gaertner V. II. p. 57 & 58. Tab. 90. but there is no= =thing like ye calix he has given in his figures, nor any resemblance of ye amentum, or capsuls gaping above ye calix.

Seeds I have not seen. It appears to me not to belong to this genus — on ye calix & numerous filaments are wanting in ye male — and — ye 4 leaves — probably ye many seeds in ye female. Vide Marshall. No doubt he describes ye same shrub.

The scales & stamina very

146) nearly answer, if not entirely to ye Gen. Chr. of Myrica Gale. And as far as I have yet compared — ye female agrees also — but they are of different classes — one Monoecia & ye other Dioceia.

Myrica Gale Sweet Gale — Bog gale — The Gen. Chr. of ye male accord well — Vide Withering & Marshall

147)

148) Eriophorum Virg. [virginicum]? Cotton or Pussy Grass — Gen Chr. accord — wish to exam. leaves & stem

149) From page 137 — Juniperus Exam? Trees near Becks Pond.

The male accords generally, with Linn.

Cal. conic katkin — but 4 flows in 4 longitudinal rows general — Some instances — 2 opposit viens? with 3 scales — & 2 opposit vains with 4-scales — the katkin terminates with 2 small scales with longe filaments — The anthera in all ye scales large — [Some of ye lower ones — have none or only one or two] The scales are nearly circular — incumbent — adhere to ye column by short foot stalks — Linnaen descriptio. of filament accords well. Female