Field notebook, 1940-1943
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21 H. fronroi var gloum - inflorescence elongati. H. venosum. Flower leaves hairy stems glaucous smooth. Feb 10 (Monday) Feb 8 (Saturday) Should form seed by Seelley. Continued Primonia. Most of the Tennessee material seems to be A. rotellata, By far the commonest species in the N.Y. area is E. gryposepala: axis inflorescence gryposepala A.strieta A.pubescens E. rotelleta A. strieta comes as far south as southern Mass., and northern N.Y. See to our collections! A. pubescens (including A. Bicknellii) is known from a four stations in Queens, N.Y. A. rotellata is known from a single station L.I., (Plattsdale) station A. parviflora is known from a single station (Cold Spring) on L.I. Named up Xyris in the herbarium, X. yunbulate is according to Malme's monograph Arb of Bot. very rare in N. Jersey. Our species otherwise are E. Coeruleiana, E. torta, E. Smalliana and E. montana, infrequency of occurrence. The species of S. Georgia and Pinar del Rio, Cuba, are remarkably similar, often identical. Received package of about 52 plants from Hernam, chiefly from Great Lakes Feb 11 (Tuesday). Continued Tennessee plants. Panicum from cedar glades, Lavergne, shows two kinds of spikelets (large 2.4mm; small 1.4 mm) on separate plants, There's P. villosissima or P. laxuginosae. The crucifer found at Lavergne in fruiting stage is an Arabis with large curled seeds, related to A. laevigata. From the