Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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= Vulpia tenuis Parl Bar 507 3-19-30 dentate, almost 1/2 mm high. Infl 1 cm+, very contracted panicle (clunata receme, not 1-sided). Spikelet flattened about 5-fl'd, the upper fl sterile. Lower glume very narrow 2 3/4 mm long including awnlike tip, scabrous green & roughened midvein with white edges, 1-nerved. 2nd glume 3-nerved, broader 3 3/4 mm long inc tip, broad white margins, mid-nerve little scabrous at top. Lemma 4mm, 0-nerved, broad white margined, bi-dentate, mid nerve prolonged in scabrous awn extending 2 mm beyond lemma tip. Palea white, thin with 2 scabrous nerve prolonged at tip into 2 awns 1/2 mm, this tip reaching to tip of lemma (not tip of jaw). Stamens 3. Rachis of spikelet minutely pubescent at base f each floret. (See 3-30-30 3-19-30 Myrtus communica L. (in # 2/8, Box 174 Box 167, 3M) C.P. 535 Fr. Above Farnalux (just below point where we turned back). Ripe fr looks much like blueberry Branches strewn in streets of Farnalux in St. Joseph's day celebration. 3-19-30 Calycotome spinosa Lintl Kn II 8/Bar 104 Box 67. On path just beyond labors. Theo H. Remains Fr (See 4-4-36