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.

[139] Petala subovate, p[?] patentia, integra, len[?] =tenuata in ungues long[?] sere calyis.

Glandula nectarifera (one between ye 2 long Stam. & calix on each side, inserted into ye recep= =tical between ye filament, more outward. These 2 glands, large & cylindrical, but short & blunt. Be= tween ye short Stam. & Pist. are two very short glands, wh seem to project outwardly on each sid of ye filament, but are near= =ly connected, perhaps quite at the base between ye filaments & germen. There appear to be 6 glands 2 large between ye long filamts — & 4 short — much smaller — The large gland remain after ye bloss. is fallen & ye pod considerably advanced. But ye small ones are not perceptable

Stam. Filamt. 6. subulata, erecta: horum duo opposita longitu= =dine calycis : quatuor vero long= =ish

[140] [?a.] Anth. erecta acu= [mena]ta. [?men] teres, longitudine Stam. Stylus brevis crassi= =tic sere germinis. Stigma capitatum, integrum. (It is nearly of ye size of ye Style & blunt, same what hairy.

Per. Silqua longa, teretiuscala. depressa utrinque (it is some what quadrangular, but compressed on two side): disepimento apice promi= =mente tereti (or ye discrip. seems to extend without ye 2 Valves — & is continued out into ye Style — or Style seems to be formed from it.) bilocularis bivalvis; valualis dissepi= =mento brevioribus.

Sem. plura globosa compressa (The seeds are roundish flatted, with a notch on one side close to ye stem that connects it with ye suture, or rather ye stem is inser

[141] inserted [oblique?] ye appearance [?] not worthy not[?] are nearly ovate, & [?] covered with very minute tubercules, wh gives a rough appearance.

Roots taper, branched — branches taper, sending off many fibres.

Stems, erect, smooth, scored — 2 or 3 feet high. Radical leaves, on long flat, concave leaf-stalks, cordate, crenated — upper leaves, have a leafy appendage wh surround ye stem, with winged segments long ye leaf-stem — about 4 pairs nearly opposite — segments adhere by a broad base wh extends along ye edge of ye stem, terminating in a pretty large cordate crenate leaf. Very deep green. Some of ye stalks have lyre-shaped flower. Stem branched toward ye top, each becomes a long spike thick set with single flowers on a — short fruit-stems. Pods very thick erect. long & slender. Bloss. yellow.

In my Garden — about houses. We call it Scurvy-Grass. Leaves eat for sallad Found it in Hamstid [Hampstead] by ye road. The leave mostly Lyre-shaped, as many of are in my Garden. It was near a house — in uncultivated land by a wall Have not seen it where it appeard evidently [?]

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