Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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because capsule 6mm high (me.) seeds is on a stalk, only 1mm. Capsule very like ill [S. gallica]. (Cote) and ill whole plant makes this not impossible identification. But filaments not at all "velutula base". Plant many traveled from base; branches numerous at base. Note that lower flowers ped to 2 cm, (ascending) while those at tip quite almost sessile. Cote also that often in case of these lower long-ped. frs sometimes in case I upped for the back [only] out which subtends them subtends also an almost a quite sessile fr with or without bracts (too) at its base. 40 s 50 so that implies not a simple raceme. All evidence seems to point deftly S. decipiens Barcelo' Bas 61 which Kn calls S. persea L var apetala Kn Kn I 4 71 4-23-32, Ornithogalum marbonense L. Kn I 397, Bas 436, Bor 296, Cote II 317 Fl. Belles. Petals somewhat green veined inside, about 13 mm high. Filaments broad for 4mm, then narrow at tip to 1 mm and are very narrow for 2mm = 7 mm total. Style almost exact length of filaments. Anthers white. Pedicels 8-12 mm also very acuminate bracts as long longer varying a little but all the unpanded buds at top green. Pier seg not yellowing with age. St. 18 in length the 3 frs only slightly shorter.