Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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11-14-30 Plantago albicans L. Knuth 411, Bas. 391, Bon Fr. R.R. near S. Maria. Lower part of a woody branching (or this "cepaliflora ramosei- dina or epigea" Bas?) These branches covered by the sheathing bases of the proximate leaves on lower 2 in. Lvs to 4\1/2 in x 8 mm, oblong-lanceolate (widest about 1/4 of length below tips). Tips attenuate to very sharp points. If narrowly attenuate, below widest part is about 2 mm & then expanded into sheathing base. If entire with long white silky pubescence to sides (esp. noticeable on dorsal lvs), with 3 dis- tinct nerves. Scape 4-6 in long to base of fl. l, much overtopping lvs, somewhat glabrate but not tufted, glabrescent but many lvs had same dense white pubescence found on rachis of infl. Suff narrow 2-3\1/2 in, ofen much interrupted at base. Bracts with broad hyaline somewhat suffused edges with (frequently) a ciliate tuft at apex but not other- wise ciliate. Calyx lobes 4, the anterior one long-ciliate on keels, posterior ones less so. Capsule seems to have been torulose (1 maturing) Hairs on spikes not more than 1 mm long. See 3-11 & 26-20 for P. lagopus, which this must be if not P. albicans in Bar or Bon. Culms.