Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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a P. hybridum ! 3-2-31 ??? Papaver Argemone L. Kn H 5; Bar 20; Bor X 9; BV N 20; Cote I les A 4/16 Dead plant with empty pods, nobs. defrosted Portales. Pods 1/2 x 1/4 in., with hairs on all surface (too hairs to be sure ?). Pod narrowed to base (not rounded as deep for P. hybridum) but not as proportionately long as will for P. Argemore. Stigmas 6-9. Plant 12 in high with 6 branches at very base, these each with several branches so sometime more branched making grey bushy effect with at least 30 flo. or peduncles 2-3 in. 3-2-31 Medicago Fl v young fr. Ditch on no side (rd west of Car Catala; near but Portales road which leads to fort). 5x to 18 in long (upright in thickets along wall) Led v glabrous. Lfts glabrous (except for few hairs on edge), oblate, fruncate or slightly retuse at tip, large (terminal lft 15 x 13 mm) Petioles 2-3 cm. Peduncles always much shorter (5-10 mm); not aristate. Flos 2-4, 4mm overall, pedicle short than calyx tube. Fr (a.f.s.) very loose, the thickly set spines almost at right to plane) coil (making edge look flat) probably will be hooked. Fr glabrous, coiled discharge