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

25 June 20th No. 151 — White flower wood from — near Nat. Appletons — Tetrand — Monogy

Calyx — none that is perceptable — by ye naked eye — By ye microscope an exceeding small perianth divided into 4 or 5, believe 4 — very slight segt

Corol — 4 oblong, white, obtuse reflected patent petals —

Stam — 4 subulated, erect, spreading filaments, longer yn nearly of ye length of ye petals — Anthera, oblong stand horizontally.

Pistil, Germen under ye Corrol, & coronated Style short, cylindric, shorter yn filaments — Stigma, large capitated — or glander globularly flat.

Seed — Berry

It is a shrub of a smooth light coloured bark, Grows nearly

26 nearly errect. The limbs generally stand opposite — It grows about 8 or 10 feet high Leaves oblong, acuminated, at apex, deeply marked with alternate viens, smooth, upper disks deep green, lower light green — short pedicles. On ye ends of ye branches stand prety long flower stalks, which branch out into an umbel irregular umbel, which forms forms several irregular umbellula — — uneven on their disk — The florets are very small The umbels not very large of a white colour

Grow in moist land. — found it between Mr. Jacob Browns & Nat Appleton right hand, first woods —

27 June 23d No. 152. Wild Pea — from Nat. Appletons Swale, Purple Blew — Diadelphia Decand —

Calyx — Tube of one leaf — divided into 5 segts — ye 2 upper small & broad, — 3 lower long & narrow — Papillon Papilionaceous —

Vexillum — Very broad — inversely. Ovate, emerginatd, & reflected

Ala — 2, oval, approaching — shorter than ye Vexillum —

Carina, compressed, half moon — shaped, shorter than ye wings

Stam — 10 filaments, one simple simple some what supperier, subulate, flat — 9 subulated filamts united from ye middle doward into a cylinder, ye filamts turned upwards at apex. Anthera roundish.

Stam — Germen oblong, compressed

28 pressed — Style, subulate flatish & turned up — Stigma, oblong — woolly adhering to ye upper side part —

Seed — long, flat pod, with 2 sutures, point tapering upward & base doward — seeds roundish adhering ot ye upper suture.

Root — fibrous —

Stalk, triangular & flatish, having leafy appendages along 2 opposite angles — Grows 4 or 5 feet high in rich ground, but week & procumbent, unless sup= ported — Leaves oblong & narrow — 1 inch long 2/10 in wide smooth, light green — they stand opposite along a tri= =angular rib with very short pedicles

29 pedicles — The ribs of ye leaves terminate in one or 2 long tendrils —

Blossoms of a beautifull bright purple, or yellow or white, purple and blue, & deep blue somewhat variegated. These several colours sometimes on one stalks — Have seen none of ye sweet-sented peas that produce blossoms equally beautiful —

The pods just out of blossom were very long — These grow in a moist swale, by a run that has ye wash of ye rode & may I doubt not be greatly improved by cultivation

June 23d No. 153. Yellow flower, or meadow yellow Wild sun flower — From Nat. Appletons meadow — Looks much like farm yellow flower

Octand. Monog — Oenoth=