Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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less evident. Space between obscurely net-veined. Perhaps a monocotyledon. If narrowed at base into beaked petiole 1/2-3in which broadens below into scale of root (scales so loosely put together root can hardly be called a bulb). Outside root formed of scales whose lvs have withered v inside tightly packed scales which will prol. develop into lvs. Dr H. had found no dissecters. Withered lvs have papery texture, once rather leathery. 12-13-30 I-8. Cutline just at Ferro-Carril Hotel Soller. Bark lvs not collected. St at least 12in high bearing occasional new shoots now formed of tight glo. v la. //veined, grasslike, but +1/4cm broad, glabrous, smooth, green with white borders. Main st. has branches which toward top bear the fls. And just would be called pinniculate (2, if each of these branches is taken as unit, sidearms) Fls scattered in groups of 1-2 - perhaps more. Pedicels +6mm, articulated in middle (sheathed or bracteate at base) rise from slight swelling on one side?, at., erect. Capsule of 3 cells, deeply 3 lobed, x cordate at top, with remain of feltform style from middle. Various