Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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[in light] 7-18-33 and desc. Cote III 294 11-3-30 receptacle. Carpel thin, loosely enclosing seed. Seed black, rough, oblong about 1.5 X .8 mm creased down the middle (by longitudinally) the embryo evidently folded on itself. What remains of calyx (or involucere) under it is nerved (possibly 3-parted). Parts of plant seen glabrous. Pollen scarce except (for?) under branches. Ident. (from memory 12-19-30) from ill. Rom and Cote. See also #74. 11-3-30 ? Scrophulariaceae Figs. No halo. Plant dead, &t simple to 8 in high with all scars to top (alt. below velum?) at quite opp above. Dintl. 1/4 or less in. long, ter- iminal. Pods almost sessile with remains of very faint see? Calyx below, globular, open? (with defloration). Pod about 7 mm high, 2 beaked, 2 celled, splitting into 2 valves loculicidally (so that the 2 beaks become 4). Seeds many about .7 mm long, whiteish, or axillary pita- central seeds ribbed longitudinally and beautifully & finely meshed transversely. It had been def. pubescent. Pod glabrous but somewhat twisted, stiff & firm. #/5- # in Bar can only be Trixago or Enfragia See 11-22-30. ??? ~~ Bartsia Trixago L.