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

11 yellow & make litte appear? The fruitificato. perfectly agrees with with the Laurus very well in every thing but the nectarium wh I am by no means satisfied about —

May 20th Mares Tail — I find to be the Horse tail — agreeing very well with Withering's discription

May 20th Anenome — Another species vid. B. 1. II It agrees well with Linn. 16 Spec. except that the petals are not numerous but from 6 to 9 or 10 —

The petals are lanceolate Anthera double — & upright Recept. Globular, hollow [ducts?], seeds acute ye characters agree very exactly with Withering p. 328 —

12 The stem is round, naked, 4 or 5 inch high at the top are sent off, near together, several leaf stalks, three to gether or ternate supporting a small leaf each — some of them are irregular, but most of them have a deep notch on each side ye apex - Vide sine & shape in ye mergin [drawing] — may properly be called jagged — they are much smaller yn ye other species — from ye axila of ye ternate leaves rises a slender flower stalk each supporting a single flower — white — small — Their disks are nearly even, but do not rise from ye same center — I think this had better be inserted as a new species or it may be 16 leaving out Numero=

There is a nohter 6 species with serrated & jagged leaves wh anwers to ye 14th of Linn —

13 May 22d Saxifraga — The caracters agree entirely except — that ye germ. 2 & seperated in ye middle has each one cell — But this agrees with Hill —

The stem grows 6. or 8 inch — high — naked, hairy — The radical leaves are between cordate & oval — dentate — Uper disk green, ye under redish, spread every way or stellate on ye, ground from ye root — small. Flowers in pnaicals [panicles?] at ye end of stalks. They are small & milk white — It agrees intirely with Lin — 12th ord. Spec. Hirsuta; Found it on Ben Browns gravily knoll next Parsonage.

Pipa Bed — Hedyotis 3d. species — Characters answer very well 3d. species comes near — The

14 — The stalks rise by pairs — several divisions in pairs — leaves lanceolate — very small — The limb of ye corol. deeply divided into 4 petal like segts.

May 22d Mouse ear — Senegenisia equale —

Calix — Tiled — woolly — strap shaped — ye inner most ye longest — tho^ all near of a length — The tip ends are coloured white, & are long — refle patent, & have ye appearance of a corol — but the base is green — & has no tube —

Corol. Gen. none but ye top of Calix Individuals one petal; tubular; long — slender — border bellshaped 5 segts reflected — white —

Stam — 5 filaments — hairlike — short.

15 Anthera form cylinder longer yn blossom with 5 teeth —

Pist — Germ. oblong. with soft & very long feathery hairs — Stile thread shaped, longer yn stam. Stigma bifid —

Capsule none — cup closing —

Seeds solitary — very small cylind — Feathers very long — numerous very fine or downy —

Recept. semi-obicular or very much convex, deeply dotted —

Radical leaves cuniform downy — thick intire — a little coloured red — Leaves on stem lanceolate & sessile & very small — The stem 5 or 6 inch high, hairy, leaves alternate — The flowers grow on the top several small heads growing together — rise from the apex of ye stalk in form of umbel & form a converse umbel — ye disk of each head is convex — the