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

36 or hairs growing in two rows round the fruit stalks. The apex of the spatha is roled back, with deep longi= =tudinal groves, alternate streaked on ye outer side with green & white on ye inner side with white & black. am in doubt about spec. (omit it)

The root is a bulb flat at the & wrinkled at ye bottom sending off a large number of small fibres from the sides It has properly no stalks. The leaf stalk rises out of a spatha. At some distance from ye ground, ano= ther smaller leaf stalk is sent rises from an isis incission or spatha in ye larger, & the pedicle of the flower is sent off in ye same manner from ye smaller leaf stalk near its axilla. The two leaf stalks terminate with three leaves

37 leaves, generally oblong but some what irregular in their form. The mergin intire & apex a sharp flexable point. The Berries red when ripe. The indians boiled it for sauce — Vide Catesby & withering. In rough ground shaddy places, by walk & fences in moist ground.

June 19th Fox Berry — It ap= proaches nearest to the Gallium — and may be ranged under it as doubtful with ye aditional English name Red Lady's Bed Straw. But think it must be a new genus as stile is quadif. or has 4 stigmata, & two blossoms on one pericarpum & ye berries are not dry, nor do ye leaves stand stellate

38 Calix — Very small with four teeth, placed on ye germen & around it — permanent —

Corol — One petal, cylindrical tube short — deeply very long, small, enlarged at [mo?] divided into 4 patent segts — but apex very little, or almost closed up when in blossom full bloom. Hairy on the inner side, reddish outside

Stam — 4 subulated filaments — adhering to the tuble, shorter than corol. Anthera lga large ovate, erect compressed — Germen double beneath

Pist — Stile thread shaped of ye length of ye stand — Stigma Stigmata four cylindrical —

Capsul. A double berry which has two flowers with a double crown — frequently the 2 blossoms are contained in one cla calix with elongated laterally — or the 2 calies are united in one having 8 or 9 teeth — The berry has a pulp —seeds not examined

39 The berry is nearly globularly, of a deep red a little compressed — containing 8 large ovate compressed seeds — four placed, nearer together under each flower no capsule — berry deep red —& sweetings agreeable tast.

The roots creeping — the stems procumbent, round, & extend along several inches on ye ground. The leaves are small, roundish, of a deep green, with large whitish veins, on shor stand in pairs on short pedicles. The blossoms are red very small, & placed at ye ends of ye stems & branches on very short pedicles.

Common in moist woodland & dry shaded swamps it decoction of ye leaves has as an agreeable tast & is some wt astringint, The country people have substituted it for tea —

40 June 22d Broad leaved flagg Swamp Lilly — Poliand — monog. — non discripts —

Calix — a thick foliaceous spatha, ovate, expanding, permanent, & ter= minating in a long flexable spine — The recepticle of ye flowers is cylindrical, supported on a pedicle thick set with florets from within a small distance of ye base of ye spatha to its end.

Corol. none.

Stam — an filaments an indefinite no. of filaments from ye recepticle between ye germina, & not seperated by a corrola, [?] wh seem to be between 10 & 2 in no. — filiform, compressed shorter nearly of ye length yn ye pistil. Anthera double, simple.

Pistil — Germen approaching to ovate. Stile none perceptable Stigma simple.

Capsule, one cell, containing several cylindrical,