Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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10-26-30 Walk on road leading directly inland (Puerto Pollenza) from Hotel Masi (C) around farmhouse & cont. Inued up valley, taking finally a right path (soon mitigated) which lead to road (Former tr.) a little south of divide. 563 10-26-30. Crocus minimus DC. forma Cambessedesii n° 10 bis Kn I 390: C. Cambessedesii in Bay Bar X 47. FL At point where we struck Formentera Rl Perianth often distinctly pale violet; inner segs dark nerved only at base outside, but the outer segs strikingly v redly nerved outside. Plant 8-10 cms. This form peculiar to Balar- cis C. minimus DC in Crocea vs Sardina Kn III 156. Note this station not given by Kn or Bee [see Willk All LIII. In good ill v note how this differs from C. minimus DC as desc. Cont III 361 exp as to styles "breviados por el spice en 3-8 loculos tubiformes" (Bai/ 15-26-30 Dug up one of labor but evidently not belong- ing to it a white almost spherical tuber, 7mm diam with a few roots (poss a bit) at which had joined it to parent plant), no growth at upper end v none found on dissection. 10-26-30 Dalavola Kali' l. Kn I 444, Bar 391.