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.

180) veins running longitudinally — depressed upper — projected lower surface

Stem terminates in a kind of raceme of flowers on short peduncles. The fruit a red-berry.

Roots large, cylindrical running horizontal. jointed & sending up a stem annually from a joint formed the preceding year — Many small fibres go off from ye joints

Uvularia. Perfoliata Gen & spc. chr. accord well Roots large — Several long, tapering white roots

181) clear white go off from ye head from whence ye stem rises —

Stem smooth, compressed 18 inch high — lower part spatha — like leaves, husky pointed. Large leaves, smooth, alternate, ovato-oblong, large longitudinal veins — Stem goes thro^. ye leaf near its base.

One or 2 branches sent off from axilla of ye leaves — Bloss. single on peduncles going off at ye extremities of ye stalk & branches. Blossom yellow — inside of ye petals thick set with granula

182) Convallaria sessilia N.Sp — Solomon's Seal

Corollis infundibuliformis Root — horizontal jointed large, white, sending off many long white fibres.

A single stem rises from ye end of ye joint, annully formed, a deep cavety at ye joints wh is ye leaf & wh strongly mark where ye former stems came from ye root. A new joint grows annully at ye end of wh ye stem rises for ye present form.

Stems smooth, roundish, or nearly round bending. Leaves alternate. Strongly marked

183) marked with longitudinal vein — along ye upper & bending part of ye stem, sessile — pedu pointing 2 ways — peduncles go off from ye axilla of ye leaves — some times single & some times divided into 2 or 3 — Each bearing a single flower -pendent.

The mouth of ye Coral contracted — Segment short — tube long. Berries globular — smooth not spotted when young — 3 els cells — Seeds single — sometime double in ye same cell

Bloss. yellow.

Rich shaddy woodland & among bushes

184) Aralia nudicaulis? Sars Sassaparilla [Sarsaparilla] Gen. Chr. perfectly accord except ye seeds kidney shaped.

Stem naked, 12 inch high dividing at ye end into 3 branches — each subdivided into 2 or 3 winged leaves, some what irregular — some 2 pair, with a terminating base, — frequent one of ye last divisions has only a single leaf — Leaves ovate serrated

Stem bearing ye blossom leafless — rising from ye base of stem, somewhat shorter yn ye stem — divided into 3 branches each terminates in an orbicular umbel Root — running horizontally a