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155) only angular. 2 opposite angles very obtuse — ye 2 others opposite more acute. It seems to be some wt compressed. No visible style There appears an obtuse stigma.

In several of my spn Male & female on ye same branches — One or two with only female — & several of only male.

Leaves strap-shaped — acute & quite pointed not very sharp — so as to be stiff & prickly — entire — Solitary — of ye size of the Hemlock — but of a light green.

They are pretty thick Set upon all sides of ye branches but encline to spread horizon= tally on ye opposite sides of ye branches

156) branches. Very short round leaf-stalks, wh rise from a decurrent appendage — extending down ye branch. Blossoms suspended on ye under side of ye branches — single. The bud from wh ye filaments rise — 6, 8, or 10 husky leaves wh are of a bright yellow & fall with ye blossom. I should call them a Perianth. The scales enclosing ye femal gren green — rather succulent — perhaps change colure as they advance & fall.

Grows on ye ledge in my Manchester lot — Cape Ann woods. Procumbent. One bed of it spreads on ye ground very thick — no branches more yn 2 or 3 feet high — I found

157) I found another patch of ye same at ye N.E. corner of Col. Dodges wood lot east of Chabacco pond — in ye corner where ye 2 stone walk meet. These spcns from both.

An Taxus?

Near ye preceding is a patch of ye same kind of growth. Flower not advanced sufficiently to exam.

Leaves entire linear — or strap-shaped bent or curved inward stand single — round ye stem in a verticillate form of 3 in a whorle. — — ends accuminated — & so stiff & sharp as to be very prickly to ye hands. — Sessile — a wide white streak along ye

158) ye upper side of ye leaf — like that of ye Hemlock on ye underside. Or uper side of ye leaf whitish — with deep green margin, & deep green under side.

Branches procumbent — very low — those close to ye ground send out roots —

May 26 Trientalis , an Europea [europaea]?

Cal. Perianth accords — only No. is often 8 — frequently 7 — Cor. accords — often 8 parts Stam — perfectly accord — Pist — perfectly accord

Per. Not advanced so far as to determinate with certainty — appears to accord —

159) There is but 1 cell — seems to appear like 7 sutures — but will not open. Seeds adhere to a globular column within rising from ye receptical — not numerous — angular The column evidently excava =ted to receive ye seeds.

Stem round — single — 5 or 6 inches high. 2 or 3 stem leaves in lower smallest — like scales — ovato-oblong — pointed — leaves terminating ye stem from 7 to 9 — some what like a whirle or verticilate. — often one smaller leaf just below, & a flower stem from ye axilla. Leaves oval — spear-shaped — accumenated. — very obscurly serrated. The vains