Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823. Manasseh Cutler papers, 1782-1856. Plants and trees examined, Book I and V. gra00062. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Botany Libraries, Harvard University.

15) May 10th No. 8 Pip-a-bed Exam. small white flower in ye pastures — Calix is perianth — divided into 4 segments or lanciolaged petals — erect petule — Corol of Calix is a small perianth= =ium, divided into four deep segments, wh are erect. — Corol. consists of a single Petal, of an infundibule form Petal — the tube is cylindric & long, limb divided into 4 oval, patent petals, a double nectaria in ye base of each petal. The stamina — 4 very short filaments, inserted about midway fo into ye tube, about mid= =way from ye base to ye mouth of the tube. The anthera are oblong, erect, inserted laterally on ye filaments, & conceal them. The Germin is orbicular, containing 2 cells, & each of them a No. of roundish seeds. Style is filiform, long & erect. The stigma flatish, oblong & bifid, & riseth above ye limb of ye tube.

The root is fibrose — the leaves very small, & lanceolate & acuminated stand in clusters at ye top of ye roots, from which rises several quadrangular stalks with joints at an inch distance. At these [j?]oints stand 2 leaves stand opposite. Some

16) From ye ala of one of them is sent of a branch which bears a flower. From the 2 upper leaves rises a naked stalk on which stands ye flower. The stalks are about 3 inches high, & ye disk of ye flower about 7/10th inch in diameter. white with a faint ting of blue. There are several varieties of this genus — some of them are of a light blue & a short tube. It is a ye Class Tetrand. Monogy. and comes ye nearest to the Houstonia of Hill to any other genus But varies in ye styles being longer than stamina. The tube is small & cylindrical untill if rises above ye segments of ye calix — it there widens into a companu= =late form, & the Anthera Stamina & an= therae stand in ye base of this Companula. I am not certain where ye Stigma begins as there is some doubt whether it be not [?] [agnst?] ye top of ye anthera & so is bifid only half way — but think it is higher, near ye limb of ye tubes, & just below ye sinus. — In some doubt about ye seeds —

17) May 10th No. 9 Juniper Plumb Bush — Examined — Bush that grows in Parsonage swamp & almost all other which suppose bears ye red berries that remain almost all winter. (it is not ye winter berry bush —

Calix — Perianth, of a single leaf limb patent & divided into 5 acumi= =nated patent segments — parminant — Hirsute

Stam. Filament

Corol. 5 lanceolate — obtuse, (at apex), patent white petals, inserted by narrow ungues, into ye calix at each sinus just within ye tube. Caducious.

Stam. Filaments about 20 filiform, & when they rise are bent inwards untill ye polen is discharged, when they become erect. Do not all rise together but one after another. The Anthera are semi-orbicular with a deep stria on ye exterior part. N.B. The filaments are inserted into ye tube of ye calix by a broad base. Three stand just inserted against & just below each petal of ye corol. & one agst each segment of ye Calix are at equal [cl?]. When ye petal of ye coral. is fallen three filaments seem to occupy their places.

Pistil. Style rises from ye center of ye german — cylindrical, quinquified, about half way or 1/4 from

18) from ye apex to ye germen — or rather divided into 5 round round articulated filaments on which are 5 stigmata small & striated or divided at their apex — globular. [?]

Germen. Globular, striated, which I suppose will be a berry. Can perceive 4 or 5 loculaments, wh seem to con= tain seeds. — Vide note Book 2. under letter J.

Grows in wet land — 10 or 15 feet high, some as large as ye small of a man's leg but generally smaller. The bark of a lightish brown & very smooth. The leaves grow in bunches much like an apple tree. fined serrated oblong, nervose, finely serrated. The upper surface smooth & of a light green. The under tomen= =tose & of a lighter hue. From these bunches rises a flower stalk, 1/2 inch, with numerous a number flowers standing on pedi= =cles of 4/10th of inch. Am not certain yet about fruit. Suppose it belongs to Class Icosand.

Mr. Fuller tells met it does not bear ye read berries — but a very good fruit. The trees there are much larger then in our swamps & grow upon ye upland & ye fruit very fine if ye Birds can be

19) kept off untill it be ripe, as they are very fond of them. This shrub bears a fruit that is ripe early in ye year of red colour & not disagreeable ⁠— tart much like ye checkerberry ⁠— Children are fond of them in ye milk ⁠— I eat of them repeatedly ⁠—

May 16th No. 10 ⁠— Exam. Plumb -- British form Mr. Fullers ⁠— { Vide Note Book 2d. { letter. M. Calix — none —

Corol. — Tubular bell shaped 6/10 in long — [striated?] & clouded with read & yellow. Limb divided into 5 segments — a little incurvated. Diam. tube at mouth 9/10 at base is a small tuberele on ye out side.

Stam: 5 very short filaments inserted in ye mouth of ye tube, in segts just below & directly agst ye sinuses of ye segment — & then extending down ye tube in closed by ye thin membrane in to with ye substance of ye tube. Anthe= ra, simple, flatish, oblong, erect —

Pistel. — style, thread shaped — longer yn tube, erect. Stigma, bifid, small & glob globular.

Germen. A Plumb — is oblong when ye flower opens — below ye tube. The tube stands upon ye apex. The fruit stands in pairs on a small round stalk which