Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823. Manasseh Cutler papers, 1782-1856. Book III. gra00062. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Botany Libraries, Harvard University.

113 Seeds — very long cylindl. Capsule — contained numerous, oblong seeds with long silken threads at ye apex —

Stalk squarish (or striated) 4 or 5 feet high, not so large as ye other sort — Leaves long narrow acumd. — very deep green upper, lighter lower side — margin even, but a vein runs round with in ye mergins — [uniting?] ye lateral veins — Very short pedicles stand thick, alternate, all round — Branches from axilla — Flowers stand in long open spike — at top — on short pedicles — upper part stalk round — flower pedicles have a very small prop —

The flowers are a beautiful purple & even ye Capsule is coloured — make an elegant appear Found in Bill Dodges field

July 31st No. 214 Yellow vine —

Calyx — Cup — 5 small blunt. segts. Corol. Bell-shaped tube 5 blunt, patent

144 patent segts perfectly white — small —

Stam — 5 short erect filamt Anthera small simple —

Pistil — Germen roundish, large, above, Styles 2 very short, Stigmata small simple —

Seeds — roundish Capsule — seeds few 4 — roundish — compressed on one side

Vine bright yellow size of a pack thread — runs round it self & every twige it can reach — could see no leaf flowers stand in bunches very close to ye vine on very short pedicles — Bill Dodges field —

July 31st — No. 215 Red Bush —

Calyx seems to be a tube wh becomes ye Capsule or a crown to ye Capsule, divid into 5 very narrow long acumd. patent, permanent, segts

Corol — cylindl. tube divid into long erect, blunt segts, yellowish white tinged with red

[1]45 Stam — 5 filiform erect filamts of ye length of ye segts inserted into ye tubes in ye sinuses of ye segts Anthera long thread shaped, or rather flatish, stand horizontal by ye midle —

Pistil — Germ. below — Style, filiform longer yn Stam — Stigma — large simi-globular, being round on top & concave below — Capitated (credo)

Seeds — a Capsule — nearly egg or pair shaped — swelled below — with long tapering apex on wh stands ye flower — seeds numerous — very small & roundish —

The old Bush has a light coloured redish bark — branches generally grow oposite, does not appear ever to grow more yn a foot hi or 2 high — young Branches long — bark smoth & dark red — leaves stand oposite very regular — Ovate, acuminated slightly serated 4 inch long 2 Broad short pedicle, smoth, light green

Young branches that came up this year when ye ground was burnt in ye spring, very thick single

146 singe, red — with 2 or more flowers standing on a continuance of ye tip of ye branch & in axilla of ye Leaves on short Pedicles — By side Bill Dodges Wall —

Flowers a whitish yellow tinged with op red —

July 31st — No. 216 Celedine Wet ground Weather Cock — Impatient — Vide Withering —

Calyx — 2 roundish coloured leaves — some what of an husky appearn with a sharp point — or roundish apendage at apex — not a spine but rather a continuance of ye middle rib — or ye Calyx may be 2 Corol Petals of ye corol. but ye colour is not so high —

Corol — 3, Petals — The uper one erect, or rather turned back — roundish — concave — The other irregular shape but similar — with 2 small Segts on ye uper side yn margin, patent. The under side of ye margin enters ye mouth of a very large horn — shaped honey Cup & appears

[14]7 appear to form ye mouth of its [?] are perfectly distinct — ye horn tapers gradually from ye mouth & is inflated, terminating in a reflected spur — The mouth is slightly scoloped, or cut rounding in ye segment of a circle [drawing] Stam side mergin and adheres at one of ye points to ye recepticle between ye 2 lower petals — The apex of ye lower petals are p turned back — making a wide opening into ye horn. The Corol & horn are of a bright yellow very deep yellow, doted with purple inside. The under edge som seem to be made irregular by mouth of ye horn pressing agt ym & receiving ym into its cavity, for stand directly a [bout?] it —

Stam, 5 very short flat filamts one broader yn ye rest — ove thicker & bent toward ye tops — Anthera — roundish, & adhere together in an oblong form.

Pistil — Germen oblong above — style none — Stigma pyramidical or roundish.

Seed — an oblong, Pod Capsule contain