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Book XII.
Descriptions & Notes on American Indigenous Plants
By Manasseh Cutler
1796 1797 1798 179[9]
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1) 1796 Sep. 10th Book 12th
Hydrocotyle umbellata Penny wort. White root — Gen & Spec Chr. accord well
Hydrocotyle umbellata foliis peltatis renatis; umbellis Simplicibus, multifloris, Scapo foliis longiore.
The umbell is simple, support on a scape wh rises naked from ye roots — The florits are generally more than 20 — White — all fertile. The leaf stem supports a single cre= =nate or scalloped leaf — inserted in ye center of disk of ye leaf — nearly as high as ye umbell — Some of ye [leav?] [?tles] are longer [as?] [?]
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2) Scape — and some — ye scape much longer — Generally ye scape is ye longest — about 4 inches high.
The root is creeping & sends of one scape & one leafstalk, at small distances, with a number of small rooty fibres wh descend into ye ground.
It grows in abundance on the fourth side of Chabacco pond — a little west of ye wall yt runs down from ye barn leading into ye woods — The only place in wh I have noticed it — It grows in ye edge of ye water, in ye gravel near a large rock yt projects in ye ponds — Blooms by ye later part of Augst & in Sept.
It is ye same as Sp. Plant. p. 338- Vol. ii —
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3) Sept. 9.th. Aster tenuifolius The Chr. accord well with Sp. Plant. p. 1227.
Bloss of rays nearby Skycolour — or whitish blue — Bloss of disk yellow — By wall — fences — among Bushes very common —
Leaves small — blunt — at both ends — very thick — some wt Quilted — or ye numerous, anatomized veins deeply depressed on ye upper surface of ye leaf — & some wt projected on ye under side. _____________ Solidago Lanceolata Long leaved — even topst Golden rod — Chr. accord well —
Broad Topped yellow Gold=en rod — Blos. all yellow. Top spreading erect — Corymbous.