Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823. Manasseh Cutler papers, 1782-1856. Book XIII Descriptions and Notes on American indigenous plants by Manasseh Cutler. gra00062. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Botany Libraries, Harvard University.

32) spines, erect, strong & very sharp pointed. rather thick not very scattered not along ye stem, with some spaces (gene= =rally about an inch between them, except those wh stand nearly oppo= =site.

When these vines spread in swamps among bushes, they become almost impassable to any animal of a considerable size.

In wet swamps woody swamps swales of springy wet land. Abound in Dr. N. Whipples great pine swamps.

Can be no dout of its being ye rotundifolia of Linn. His remarks Sp. Plant. p. 1460 — Caulis teres; & perfectly accords, except ye word nudus, wh will apply well, if he means that the leaves are some what distant — & the lower part of ye vine — if long, ye greater part has no leaves. Berries Black. 3 Cells — 2 seeds in a Cell, when green, but only one comes to maturity.

Smilax Pseudo-china? Small Stinkng Smilax Blossoms fallen at this time, & ye

33) fruit considerably advanced — but have frequently examined them.

Stems grow two or 3 feet high. Supported by long thread lie tendrils, two of each are sent off at ye base of ye potioles of each leaf. — nearly cylindrical, tho^ there faint traces of angles, smooth & generally some wt compressed. Leaves cordate, have not observed those on ye branches to be ovatooblong — but it is probable. The leaves on ye extremities of the stems before they have attained their full size are oblongo ovato oblong — or rather ovate. — Border entire some wt waved. The nervus from five to seven — five of wh are strongly marked. The exterior nervus much very faint & hardly perceptable — but all ye lateal branches are projected on ye under surface. It is unarmed. — On ye under leaves then are two teeth, if no tendrils — petiolis bidentatis, but I take these to be ye rudiments of tendrils, or ye stamens after

34) after ye upper part is perished — The apex terminates in a fl a point, or is acute.

Flowers in globular um= =bels on long peduncles — green, & of a most offensive smell, re= =sembling carrion, or putred flesh — Berries black. 3 cells — commonly 2 seeds in each cell, but only one ripens

Common by walls, fences & among bushes in moist ground.

June 30th Plantago Virg? [virginia] Gen. Chr. accord — Spec. Chr — fol. lanceolatis, quinque= =nerviis, pubescentibus subdenticulatis; specis ovato-cylindrus pubescentibus scapo angulato, hursito.

Leaves perfectly lanceolate — Strongly marked with 5 nervus — edge has a small number of small protuberances wh resemble a tooth but nearly intire. Disk some wt like

35) a quilted — or undulated — but it does not extend to ye edge — fine down on both sides Spikes not very long — as it blooming, swelled in ye middle, & gives ye appearance of ovate — When out of Bloom is probably cylindrical.

Scape is angular — & ye lower part quite thick set with hairs — ye upper part thin — Bloossoms pale & appear to be in a consumptive state wh in full bloom

June 30. Melicam altissima Fall Metic Grass Gen & Sp. Char. perfectly accord.

Root perennial, spreading — several stems Stems scored, with 2 acute angles, opposite. Under ye sheath of ye leaves — smooth cylind. Grows

36) from 3 to 4 foot high — having 3 or 4 knots or joints. Sheaths of ye leaves extending half way from ye knot they rise from towards ye next ([K?]not. Sheaths terminate with in a membraneous (husky border) below wh the ye leaves are sent off from with a broad base.) Leaves Slightly keeled broadest — rough — striated — rather long — upper leaves shorter.

Panical branched — lower branches longest — flowers along ye extremities in a kind of head, erect, but some= wt turned one way.

Not common here — Clark Patch has bunch where his old Barn stood — found one large bunch in Capt. B. D[?] garden Thorndick [Thorndike] Place — Beverly I think it is ye Orchard Grass of Medfield — Rich ground — June — now nearly out of bloom