Field notebook : Arizona and California, 1938-1939
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and not for Medicago [3-2-39 Fls unique fr. la Jolla son. side. Fl. 2-2,5mm, very tiny to the eye 1-28-39 Erodium cicutarium L'Nes.J592;M276 FLV adv.fr. Sweetwater Lake (J.says E.cicutarium but R.B.K.finds no B in other manuals) 1-28-39 Sonchus oleraceus L.J1000,M593. FLv young fr. Sweetwater lake. [S.asper L. seen but not collected to pf] 1-28-39 Xanthium pennsylvanicum Wall.M.546 See X.canadense Mill J1110. Unispe fr.Sweetwater Lake. 1-28-39 ?? Lepidium nitidum Nutt.J440;M190 FL Sweetwater Lake. Mr.Gauder collected Lepidium. Stigma sensile, pedicels flattened, petals present, plant glabrous except for few short spreading hairs on upper st, hence L.nitidum seems best guess. Plants in or less high. lf-segments very narrow (almost capillary) very young fr. gives promise of being "narrow margined?" [see 3-9-39] 1-28-39 Capsella Bursa-pastoris Moench.J442 = C.— Medic.M.199 FL and adv.fr.Sweetwater Lake.