Field notebook : New England
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6-29-38 to Tongue v plain under microscope (20x) 6-29-38 Asclepias incarnata L. G664; BVBII-26 FL. South side of drive towards road. All hairs on plant are short & appressed. Pedicels definitely thin not thickly hairy. Very nervos a sparsely hairy above veins beneath; older less glabrous except a few hairs near edges. Uppermost part of stem hairy but not glabrous, the 2 sides of hairs faint or lacking. Ill W.F. & N.Y. Fl 172 good. Walton p 198 say var pulchra "very hairy" Petioles 13 mm. Fl's almost (perhaps quite) as dark as Ill W.F. & N.Y. [see var pulchra 8-2-38] 6-29-38 Oenothera muscosa L. G 578; BVBII 575 FL Edge of drive. All plants inspected had hairs on red, tuberculate bases. Dead about length of pods, bracts pls difficult to follow. But see SVK I 476 acc. to which identity is sure, corolla being just the length of the longer filaments (never giving the effect of extend- ing beyond stamens) and the free part of calyx gas long as "Achenbech" i.e. Calyx tube pls vary. But contrary to SVK the open flare not "dictyogener libero-gena" and hairs of calyx tips are not red tuber- cled at base (as on hairs on st. vary) Ill W.F. & N.Y Fl a 145 v/146 not very satisfactory from our plant which pods is more like 176 ie O.m -- . {These will suggest SVK has reversed facts about fl's extending beyond