Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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Nym. F.L. Bellver near above west 3 foot path To Chapel. 3 in dingle. Lvs 1½ mm wide, flat, flat. roze. Culms stiff but only 1mm diam (Bon says 2mm) bearing 8-10 almost sessile stiff spikelets all the sides of rachis being somewhat curved to accommodate them) but all turned somewhat to face one way. Spikelets narrowly ovate, 7mm long. 7-8 fls. Glumes much slinter than spikelet, not equal, both 3-nerved, the lower narrow, both pointed & whetern edges, the lower strongly keeled, the upper less so. Lemmas almost 4 mm long, rounded below, keeled & pointed above at top, stiff & rather hard, 3 nerved, white on edges, light green on back, the lateral nerves & upper part (mid-nerve dark green; mid nerve obscure below middle. Palea reaches almost to tip of lemma, white keeled with dark green nerve near each edge, the keels ciliate. Grain oblong with appendage at top. Stamens port 3. (See 1-5-31