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

[119] Scales wh are one flowered. Scales spreading towards ye end, & [?] divided in to unequal se coloured Segts border ? fringed with long white [?] [?] foot stalk of ye scaly leaf flat, at ye base surrounding ye foot stalk of nectarium.

Corol — none — Nectarium one leaf, with a cylindrical foot stalks, some what turbinale, & tube= lar — limb spreading obliquely — or more extended in one direction from ye stem. Margin angular.

Stam Filaments indeterminate in no. from 12 to 20 — usually 16 — thread shaped rising from ye disks of ye nectarium leaf. of ye Nectarium Anth. 4 angled

Fem. Cal. Amen ut in Mare — perfectly — Squam ut in mare Cor — none — Nect. ut in mare

Pist Germ. ovate — acuminate, rising from within ye tube of ye nectarium. Style scarce perceptable. Stigma — divided into 4 some times 6 & 8 clefts.

Per. Cap. ovate — bilocularis bivolvos

Sem numerous ovate: pap. Capil.

[120]) This commonly called white Popular [Poplar] — is our common Popular — But differs from ye Wht popular of England — & Southern —

Bloss from Near Nat Applt. Oliver Appleto. grows towards river. Is not ye Nect. a Cal. or Corol? It appears to me — does not appear like a Nect. Vide Leaves —

Populus Balsamifera — Balm Gillard [Gilead] —

Ament ovate — much closer yn ye White P. scale longer more slender white spreads & becomes nearly circular at ye end — deeply divided into several coloured segts no hairs. Filamts numerous about 40 — & from 30 to 40 — Margin of ye Nect. circular & even. —

This tree grows in my close yard — I have not seen ye Female

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[121] Aprl 30 C 22. O 2. Salix Swamp Willow — Male — Cal. Ament. comm. ovate — Sometimes Oppt to oblong — imbricated with an involucrum formed of ye bad. Scales one flowered, ovate of a dark purple — thick set with long white hairs on both surfaces. margin intire.

Corol. none Nect. a gland nearly cylindrical some wt compressed — truncated in ye center of ye flower.

Stam. Filt. 2 thread shaped — long — Strait Anth. 2 or didyma, quadri= =localaris.

Fem. Cal. ut mar. Squam ut M. Col. none. Nect. ut. M. only more flat — Pist Gen. ovate, hairy, atenuated into a Stile scarce [diffinet?] — much longer than the scales of ye flower cup. Stigm. 2 bifed & erect —

Per caps. hairy ovule awl shaped — 1 cel. 2 Val. supported on long cylind. foot-stalk. from ye Sem —

[122]) ye center of ye flower

Sem. many, ovate, small & crowned with simple hairy pappus —

Specn from my swamps Oliver Appleton — other places Vide Leaves —

May 1 Ulmus C 5. O2 Native Elm

Cal Perianth. monph. turbinatum, rugosum, compressed — Limb 7. fidas — (general segts are 7) erect — unequal in sizes, nearly round circular — or are circular= & some wt jagged coloured. The inside of ye Calix for ye most part coloured — & ye outer side of ye Segts persisting.

Con None.

Stam. Filamts 5 — not unfrequently from 5. to 10 — filiform (they are perfectly

[123] perfectly thread shaped, & not subulate — Calix duplo longiore

Anth. quadrisulea, recta brivis breves/

Pist. Ger. orbiculutum, erectum. Stiles 2—, Staminibus breviores, reflexian hairy appendage from ye base running down to ye base of ye Ger= =men. It is evidently an appendage to ye Stile — connected with it, & gives ye Germ a compressed appearance — — some what like a seed with a winged appendage at ye sides of it. Stigmata pubescentia.

Not far eno^. advanced to exam. Per. but doubt not it accords with Lin. descrip. — & seed.

Collected from several Trees

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