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.

190) some of ye leaves one or two very slight indentations towards ye apex — — do not find more yn 2 or 3 on a leaf — so not are not proper serra — but ye leaf appears entire —

Melica?

Cal. 2 Valves containing 3 florets — ye midle one does not come to maturity. Valves ovate concave — acuminated, nearly equal.

Cor. 2 Val. Valves ovate witht awns, but pointed. One large concave — ye other flat — standing within ye largest, narrow, pointed & ye point somewhat divided.

Between ye 2 florets is a 3d, standing upon a little fruit —

191) stalk, very small — not half ye size of ye other 2 — Valves ye same form — only narrower straiter & less concave. It has Stam & Pist — Could not perceive a seed-bud — but Stam, Style & Stigmas like ye other. Not certain that both are found in ye same floret. It appears to be abortive

St — Threads & Anthera — accord Pist. — accords — Styles like bristles — Stig. oblong woolly

General form of ye husks & florets much like Stoke's plate of a Melica.

Stems, strait, erect, round striated.

Stem leaves very short & broad — breadth above ye

192) ye sheath, or when it goes off from ye sheath, nearly equal to ye length — blunt — & only one or 2 in No. upper part of ye Stem naked. Root leaves grassy — rather short & broad

Bloss. spreading Panicle — branched far after each bloss — on foot-stalk — of a brown colour.

Found it in Knowlton meadow, just over my north ditch in wet-ground — where pollipod grows — Have not noticed it any where else

It must be a N Sp — if a M— [Melica] not time to exam. Vide spn.

It seems between a Melica & Aira.

193) June 13. Stipa? N.Sp.? Doubt [?]

Collect some days ago in Cape Ann Woods —

Same as in p. 163-164 One species — Close spike like — panicle.

Cal. 2 Val. nearly equal. (When seed ripe expanding) pointed.

Col. (bivalvis) 2 Val. Exterior valve largest rolled round round ye in interior V. — & intirely inclosing it — terminates in a thread shaped Arista, jointed at ye base, & surround with a kind of tuft of white short hairs. The Arista very little twisted — but seems to be is channeled on one side. The upper part — seems to be a little spreading & flattish with fine short hairs or feathers — but too very short & minute so as to be very distinctly seem to examine the

194) The base of ye out V- thick set with short white hairs, en= closing so intirely ye inner V- yt not part is see[n] — & is so still as to render it difficult to roll ye outer val. edge back so as to see ye inner — for it rools more than once round nearly or quite twice round.

Inner valve — smaller rooled in ye same manner. round ye Stam & Pistal. The Anth. & Style & Stig. come out as at a small aparture at ye base of ye arrista.

Nect. not seen accords — Stam & Pisst. accord well

The seed is enclosed in ye corol very close — & both fall from ye calix together it is large — pairs some what tapering.