Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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3-4-30 Galactites hornedosa Moench Nutt 503, Bar 362, Box 174 highway west of Cas Catala. Flower white or very pale rosy, Disfl. yellowish at top tube. Rey fl large radiant with narrow, long divisions. Stamens green-blue. Fr not advanced enough to show cal. well. Receptacle with long white hairs (But see Box 151 middle of page) (See 3-30-30, 4-5-30 3-4-30 Erythrum marianum, & acta Nutt Bar 368 With above. Thistle like plant with white spathelia & purple fls. Stk 2½ ft broceling, ribbed, not at all winged with deuncants, silvery green, areclined at very top. Lower lvs large sinuate lobed & rarely on margins, entirely smooth, silvery green with broad white mid-rib. Broadly marked with white around veins above (veins white also beneath but the broad white blotches do not show beneath). Upper lvs similar sessile partly clasping with rounded very carebly lobes. Heads solitary, heads with downward curving bracts ½ in long. Tip prickly dentate at base & partly- edentate at tip. Channelled point with yellow thorn at tips. The innermost bracts without spines colored purple at tips. Fls all the same abruptly swollen to globular shape at top of tube where Stamens are attached. Filaments seem to be