Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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577 = A. Alliniei DC. Bon 353= Heteropogon glaber Pers 11-30-30 Andropogon Confusus L. Cote III. 556 v Grass in ft. or path just west divide on road from Skeros cemetery to Car Catala gorge. Dust. Terminal 3' / 2 -5in long the upper +/- /2 being consist- ing of awns highly rolled together. Awns 5-7cm, hazy, light brownator, darker below. These awns come (?) (singly or several together) bearing the lemma narrow cylindrical tightly rolled dark brown with lighter brown hairs, sharp culms with conspicuous tuft of brown hairs (2-3mm from base) culms to tip of tuft.) The ?lemma is accompanied by a similar equally long ? palea. These enclose grain with taper- ing into styles & 2 plumy stigmas (or ?) Then grain not developed only styles & stig- mas present) One difficulty in analysis comes from fact that the awns is not attached to ? lemma but seems to come from inside its smooth narrowed base being enclosed in ?lemma v ? palea as are stigmas. Certain very thin scales-like fragments similarly inside may be bits of an inner true lemma but not with to which awn was attached but this is only a conjecture. Note that stigmas seem often & lie between awn v ? lemma in such a way as to seems to preclude this ever having been connected.