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

20 at base acuminated, ye Capsule rising from ye ala —

Corol. — 5 petals — 3 outer ones — & 2 inner ones — The midle petal wh stands opposite to ye stalk, is oblong, curved forming ye segt of a circule with ye apex turned a little reclining — The other 2 are irregularly oblong, broader having ye mergen next ye stalk, nearly linear or strait. curved from ye claw & ye open bent out, ye midle rib large protruding outward. Nervose The two inner petals irregularly oblong, narrower yn ye others rising obliquely & reclining out wd from ye base, curved like ye others — ye margen unequal or very slightly scolloped or rather uneven with long scolops. The large rib protruding inward —

The honey cup — one lingu= =lated leaf, fixed by its claw to ye recepticle & ye Style & rises next ye Stalk, betwixt ye 2 broadest exterior petals. The apex winged, blunt, with a No. of fine yellow filaments

21 filaments between ye wings, erect — 3 small tubes lay parallel along ye inner disks rising at their apex mouths with a No. of fine yellow filaments from ye leafy part. It has two small protuberances on each side above ye base.

Stam. 2 very small & very short filat. & not to be perceived by ye naked eye, find on a protuberance of ye style — Anthera contained in two cells of an angular substance much like ye style as to colour & texture — or ye anthera are oblong at ye polen is contained in two cells, which open from on ? a fold of ye an irregular an= =thera, turned down upon ye stigma & conceling ye pollen. When this anthera, or appen= =dage to it, is turn in its natural state, appears like a kind of mouth, inward — ye Anthera is ye upper jaw — easily turned back on ye 2 [?] . The tips, according to Withering may be well described —

22 Pistil — The germen a Capsule below ye flower — Stigma Style adjoined at ye apex of ye Germen to ye honey cup, & seems to be a continuence of it, curved with ye petals, shorter, laying nearly on ye top rib of ye midle, external petal, flatish with a leafy appendage on ye acute edges, wh expands near ye apex. The up-right midle point is that to wh ye 2 small filaments adhere. The stigma is a shel-form protu= =berence from ye upper & inner part of ye Style, convex up= =wards into wh ye anthera stretch [shellish?] — The under side seems to be a kind of honey cup. The tubes & filiments attending it closely imbrace ye mouth of ye anthera & style when ye flower is blooming & ye anthera discharging — but when full blown they separate and —

23 expand & form a semi= circule in ye disk of ye flower

Seeds — an oblong capsule, very little twisting, flat on ye side next ye stalk with 2 longitudinal groves — ye other part rounding with with 4 groves. seed very small — Coronated with ye flower.

Root — bulbous — ye main or largest is irregularly oblong, indented erect, with small fibres sent out at ye bottom, on ye top is ye remains of ye last years = stalks, on ye sides a small buds from which arise a new bulb & sends up a stalk ye The new bulb adheres by a fibre, where are sent out — between ye 2 bulbs many white cylindrical fibres in ye form of a wheel which stands upright — The bulb yt ye stalk

24 stalk rises from is small —

Stalk — is round, smoth, erect — 15 or 18 inch high — of ye size of a very large knitting needle — or a large common wire. It has one very long grassy leaf — inclosing ye stalks at its base some ways up — This leaf is 9 or 10 inch long & 3/10 wide & erect. several flowers stand alter= nate in a kind of spike, on ye top of ye stalk —

The flowers are of a beautiful bright light red between a scarlet & a murry or peach blossom — Disk of ye flower are inch broad —

I am at a loss wt Class it belongs to — possible ye honey leaf may be a filament & yn but think it can not —

Grows plentifully in wet meadows.