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

35 June 24th No. 156 — Yarrow — It be de same —

June 24th No. 157 Great Angillica — Pentand — Digyn — Vide Wild Angillica —

Rundels of many spokes nearly globular. Rundlets exactly globular. of ye size an ounce Ball —

Involue — general of 3 or 5 small leaves — The 2d or partial wher when the general flower stalks are sent off But think this ought not to be called ye general involue or fence. The Rundle from which ye main flower stalks are sent off — has sometimes only one or 2 very small sh narrow, acute leaves — some wt more numerous — ye partial or

36 or Rundlets, viz, ye flower stalks ym selves — has a large number of small linear leaves.

Corol 5 — oblong accuminated patent petals, with ye apex inflected or turned up — or rather curled inward

Stam — like ye wild & Withering —

Pistil — Germen below — but has a flat circular crown above which appears like a germen, — like ye wild — but is green in this kind — & very large — & emerginated. Styles, 2 short & reflected — Stigma blunt —

The flower of a light green — ye petals only having some wt of a light colour. It may be ye English, im= =ported

The Root is very large —

The Stalk very large smooth — hallow, sometimes 2 inches in diameter. It is I presume ye largest anual plant I have ever seen in this country — 7 or 8 feet high — very much branched exceeding beautiful & grand — It is often cultivated in garden but is found wild — Smell very considerable, sweet & Leaves agreeable

37 Another speaces — Much like ye Beverly Angil= — only ye leaves divided into 4 large lobs — & ye lobs deeply notched — & serrated — (Seeds very very large, flat, like parsnips, this I believe same as Beverly). — Not so high — found down toward of farms — maybe ye same but of a browner completion —

June 24th No. 158 — Another species wild — Rundels ye same only more open — ye lower stalks flower stalks ye longest — so as to make ye surface nearly even. — Rundlets a little globular, forming a small segment of a globe.

Corol — appears inverse by heart-shaped & having a very sharp pointed, inflected — patent — Anthera globular & compressed or have 2 stria one on each side —

Pistil — Germ. or crown very large rotate, exam — further —

Root — A number of ovate tuberose roots — swelling just below ye stalk & yn terminating blunt with small fibres It has also cylinder

38 cylinder roots, spread. & tapering —

Stalks rather slender, not larger yn ones finguer — round smoth with appearance of a green stria on stripes — hot to be felt — or seen to be indenta — Very much branched grows 5 or 6 feet high, hallow The leaves have stalk is sent off with broad claw & husky hallow claw, at con= cave claw — out of which is ye branches rise — it is 1/2 inch long & sends off 3 divided into 3 leaf branches pedicles — on 2 lateral stand two, on central 3 oblong long, narrow ovate leaves, with acute apex & very for beautifully serrated

It grows very common in moist ground, on banks of brooks & rivers & in dry meadows —

The flowers are snow white & large — The plant very elegant —

The smell is of It is very agreeable sweetish, spicy smell, The lower leaves have several set of branches & several set of pinnae on a branch — with an odd one.

39 June 24th No. 159 — Purple weed Pea — Much like yt discribed page 27 — only — that

Tube of calyx longer — segts long slender, & nearly equal

The prop — very small on ye under side a dark purple, shining spot wh seems to be ye nectarium —

The standard not so much reflected, & not so round —

The blossoms are very small — Wings & keel — very small — The flower opens but little —

Stam — very short from ye tube —

Otherwise same

Stalks angular — leaf stalks flat on upper side — terminates in 4 or 5 tendrals leaves stand alternate — sharp point at end of each leaf — Other wise same

Blossom pale red & purle mergin of standard of a blue