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11-5-30
evidently not F. [illegible] 14 v 4-25-30)
"11-5-30 Euphorbia
Fls/fr shrub'd so of Puerto Pollense. St rather slender, perhaps woolly, naked (a.t.s). So many tiny branches below 5-rayed umbel that umbel or effect entirely lost. Bracts glabrous, glaucous v rate with def sharp, somewhat recurving point minutely serrate on upper half, small this than 1 cm (sometimes less than 5 mm), the 2 bracts of a pair [illegible] noticeably unequal. Glands greenish yellow, thickish v sometimes obscurely lobed on outer (concave) edge, with thin linear points (simple or more or less def divided into 2 or more lobes) issuing from beneath the edge of gland. Ripe capsule 3- mm long, smooth, with basene white dots, the 3 lobes not deeply separated v the dorsal nerve in conspicuous. Red dark, becoming marmbled with brown on drying (effect of figured flush for eupholstery) not quite arnold. Lobes young almost oblanecolate, sharp pointed immediately serrate on upper part, 1/2 as long glaucous. Could this be form of F. [illegible] 1926-35 that to be F. patryussa L. forme undrecta.