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

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Contains descriptions of plants, and locations where Manasseh Cutler found them in 1783-1784, numbered 330, and numbers 141-216. There is an index to plants described in the front of the volume. Entries include observations on nightshade (Solanum dulcamara), wild angelica (Angelica sylvestris), water plantain (Alisma), watercress (Nasturtium officinale), and St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum).

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148 containg a few oblong irregular seeds adhering to an husky Columella. Pods fly out of ye [head?] when touched —

Root — Divaricated — small, [?] fibres —

Stalks, large, hallow, smooth & almost transparent [Joints?] — swelled — branches stand & [?] with out leaves — 2 feet or more high — very much branched & leaves at ye upper branches as ye rise from axilla —

Leaves oval with a few serra — long pedicles — light green

Flower stalks rise from ala of leaves — branched — flowers stand single on ye branches of ye flower stalk — 2 or 3 on a branch — there perticular pedicles are not very long. It is used for jaundice Colour of flower before discribed —

July 30 — 1783 — amen —

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