One Hundred and Sixty-four

First Appearance and Context

The list is invoked when avout tend the Cloister garden in a Decenarian Math; in one example, a slashberry cane was noted as not included among its permitted entries. During Apert at the Concent of Saunt Edhar, visitors brought a sapling to be transplanted, and an elder agreed provided it was of the One Hundred Sixty-four, which the visitors affirmed in keeping with the math’s rules.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

The One Hundred and Sixty-four is a formal roster of plant species permitted for cultivation under the Second New Revised Book of Discipline. Avout consult it to decide which plants may be cultivated, removed, or accepted as gifts. Its purpose accords with the community’s broader Cartasian Discipline, which regulates practices and materials within the math.

Relationships

• Closely related in practice to The Eleven, a shorter, proscribed list. Plants on that list are burned on sight and the action recorded in the Chronicle. A cited example notes a slashberry as being in neither the One Hundred and Sixty-four nor the Eleven, so immediate destruction was not required.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Specifies which plant species are allowed; the narrative has not enumerated the full membership of the list.
• Functions as a go/no-go check for garden tending and for acceptance of plantings brought by visitors.
• Often referred to in speech as “the One Hundred Sixty-four” or “the One Hundred and Sixty-four,” reflecting usage more than any formal variation.

Current Status/Location

Actively observed in the Cloister and grounds of the Decenarian Math within the Concent of Saunt Edhar, and cited by elders when accepting visitors’ plantings during Apert.