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

15 ye segts of ye Corol — rising from ye germen — adhering to ye take as far as the mouth — erect & spreading & longer yn ye mouth Anth — oblong & erect

Pistil — Style filiform, longer yn filaments — very long — Reclining. Style very large globulose-capitate.

Seed — Germ — very long Capsule it is oblong from ye pedicle & very slender towards ye apex coronated with ye calyx — perhaps ye pas capsule is finaly swelled. all ye way with ye seeds —

The seeds are very numerous small, obicular —

Root —

Shrub —

Leaves oblong

Leaves, Ovate — 3 inch long 1/2 broad finely serrated — dark green under upper

16 upper side & lighter lower side — veined — stand in pairs on ye green short shoot — short pedicles —

The flowers are yellow with tinge of red inside to most of ym They stand on small pedicles arising from ye ala of ye leaves — princeply from ye ala of ye upper leves — one long round filiform pedicle from each leaf & ye stalk terminates in another — these pedicles send out have two more short ones rising for just under ye first capsule on wh stands 2 more — These pedicles are reclined & make an obtuse angle with ye lower part of ye stalks being a little rising from right — angle —

Examenn the tree —

17 June 19th No. 149 — Small — Shot Bush from Mr. Fullers — Pentand Pentagy —

It seems to answer better to Hill's Aralia. The berry — bearing Amern. Angelica —

The flowers are collute into an umbel of a globose figure — The umbel rather open owing to ye flowers standing on long pedicles

Calyx, very small perminant perianth placed on ye Germen, divided into 5 very small segts

Corol — 5 oblong, blunt, reflected patent, but very small petals with a longitudinal liniar protuberance along ye center of ye disk of ye petal.

Stam — 5 subulated erect filamts longer yn petals of ye corol — & rising from ye germen. Anthera globular —

Pistil — 5 very short, permanent, Styles adhering together. Stigmata small & simple

18 simple — The Germen beneath coronated with ye Calyx & Corol —

Seed — A berry — It is round hard & of ye size of a small shot —

Root — Oblong runs under ye surface of ye ground, & ye stalk shrub rises much like ye Sauer= =saphirilla — ye root extending each way from a kind of head wh rises up to ye surface of ye ground, forming a numb or head from wh ye shrub rises, single woody — perennel from ye root some ways up.

The bark of ye old shrub — is dark brown, ruff, & very thick set with small prickles — The young shoots are much more tender round & branching — The leaves pinnated with a odd one — short pedicles — serrated — ye whole stalk & pedicles are full of small grad prickles The stalk & flower stalks rise from

19 from ye ala of ye leaves — ye partial involuen[?] 10 or 12 very small linear leaves & hairy — The flowers stand on small but rather long pedicles, rising from a common center, & spreading — forming a globular left? umbel of very small white flowers.

A very prety shrub, indeed.

June 19th No. 150 — Orchis — with bulbroot — Gynand. Diand.

Spath — a small single leaf, (Very small) broad at ye base incompassing ye Capsule so far as to unite with ye stalks on ye Op which rises on ye opposite side — Or may be more properly considered as a small floral leaf, broad at