Field notebook : Arizona and California, 1938-1939
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6-21-39 Axirifex californicus Moq. T326; M138 F1 (See 4-4-39) Fl. Pacific Beach. Foot flowering St. As many (as desc.) from a thick (almost woody) taproot. Sawy only as noted 4-4-39. St now bare below only a few of the longer lvs (10/15mm) remain on upper parts. But branches & tips & sts thickly covered with smaller lvs (at most 5mm) which (before coll.) made R.B.K. think it might be Cressa globulosa except instead of hairs would always clearly distinguish the 2 species) Bracts taper to deltoid base (not ± truncate as in A. decumbens), so that greatest width is not conspicuously "below middle". Bracts often gaping. Plant heavily fruited & occasional remains of terms found above ground. no other terminal spikes (which are to M. and T. ± expectable). Seems to be no other pars in M. Bracts entire & not appendaged. (R.B.K. inclined to think 4-4-39 the same species) 6-21-39 Caleile edentula Hook. var. Californica Fern. T422; M143 Unripe fr. Pacific Beach. Fort G Loring St. Unmistakable R.B.K. does not know how var. differs from species G427 6-21-39 Tetragonix expansa Murr. T342; M153 Unique fr. With above Note 2 of the [several] fr. Abnormal in that from upper part of calyx tube grows another (no) smaller fr.