Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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"Surely this because of shape, girth and length of jaws" "on fertile glumes, but likewise best note that top" "of inflorescent glumes is more congested than ill" "Cote suggests, consisting of serial glumes." 2-2-31 Cynosurus echinatus L (See 12-18-30) Dead plant with seeds. Bellver. 1 8/11 in high. Packs together v not spreading as do the lower glumes. 2-2-31? Linum striatum L (See 4-10 & 5-30 & 10-31 v 11-27-30) Cote I. 2 29. Dead plant with capsules, seeds fallen. Bellver. Plant at once v much taller (16 in) than common in Bellver. A few slender branches near base (3 1/2 in long) bear the usual compact corymbs at tops. Above these scattered along at are slint (3/4 in) slender branchlets apparently few-fld. The upper 5 in (?) at freely branched with stiff, spreading not-so-slender branchlets ± 1 in long each with usual compact corymbs at end. Whole effect much less simple than usually found. 2-2-31? Euphorbia exigua L (See 3-30-80) Cote III 397 no flg. Bellver. 1 3/4 in high. Almost surely this but note that upper part of st & lower side of youngest lvs are slightly tomentose. Lvs acute not 3-toothed as 3-20-80. 2-2-31 ?? Ruta graveolens L. Bm 63; B# BM (cf Estrag 442; Cote I 269; § 598. Detached plant