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.

37) June 30 Iris Blue Flag — Cal Spath. bivalvis flor. disting. perf. — Cor. 6 part. 3 ext. inverso-ovato — reflex — 3 int. erecta acutiora; omni= =bus unquibus connata.

Stam. Fil — 3. Subulata-petalis reflexis incambentia. Anth. oblong — recta — depressa.

Pist. — Ger. inferum — oblongum — trigonum — Stilus, cylindricus, stigmata tria petaliformia — oblonga, intus staminibus incumbentia, bilabia= =ta, lubium exterious minus emarginatum, (potius bidentatum) Interum — majus, bifidum, subinflexum

Per. Cap. oblong. trigona tribe, trival. Sem. — plura, magna Nect.

Radix oblonga repenta folii & enc

38) ensiformibus.

Bloss deep blue striated with white towards ye apex — Striated with purple & yellow towards ye base & ye middle thick set — or strewed over with yellow grains — Wish to exam further ye Nect. & fresh petals

July Lysimachia quadrifolia? N Sp.? Gen. Chr. except Caps. 5 Val — Filiments connected at ye base into a tube

Stems erect, simple, somewt hairy, about 2 feet high — Leaves in fours at ye knots — Lanceolate, subsessile — margin a little waved — Surface spread over with very small dark spots — or points very small — a little rising — hardly perceptable — to ye touch — Flower finger, on thread like peduncles rising from ye axil of each leaf — (4 at a knot) shorter than ye leaf — # Bloss yellow — ye base of ye segt & a circle round ye stam) dark purple. United part of

39) of ye stam. purple yellow — thread part — purple.

Common in Woodland & among bushes in dry l # under side of ye calix spotted with dark small spots like ye leaves — It can not be quadrifolia

Lysimachia — N S.? Gen. Chr. Caps. 10 valves Stam united at ye base forming a tube — Cal shorter yn Corol.

Stems some what irregular smooth — erect — about 2 feet high — Branched — Branches terminate in racems —

Leaves smoth — glassy — linear lanceolate, subsessile — in pairs. base not ciliated Floral leaves linear — penduncles longer than floral leaves, thread — — like supporting single flowers —

Bloss yellow — 2 round reddish purple spots at ye base of each segt — (10 spots out ye base of ye Corol) United tube of Stam yellow — filament yellow Anth. reddish purple.

In wet ground Banks of rivers & brooks Common

40) July 5th Festuca N Sp.? Fescue Grass — Panicula secunda. Gen Chr. accord perfectly — Stem cylind — spikes erect a little noding as it advances in age. Florets uncertain

In dry ground, pastures & =fields & among bushes & seem to be indigenous

41) July 6 Anonymous? Since writing ye descripo. find it in Schreber's Gen. Plant Polyand. Decandits. Brasenia — (ovalifolia)

July 6 Oval-leave — Pond-Lily I should call if Brasenia ovalifolia.

Cal. Perianth — 3 leaves, lanceolate revolute, fleshy, entire, coloured. (if it be not a Corol)

Corol. 3 Petals, (unless ye Cal. be com= =sidered as a Corol. of wh I am much in doubt) — linear — long =er than ye Cal. — within ye Calix situated — between ye leaves of base (ye midle part part) projecting nearly in a line with ye exterior part of ye base of ye Calix, (wh circumstances render it doubt =ful whether the Cal is not a Corol) — entire; resolute, fleshy — deeper reddish colour than ye Cal —

Stam. Filaments about 20. — generally just