Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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7-30-32 Convolvulus Soldanelle L. Kn T 296, Bar 31/7 Bar 217, Box 317, Cote F571 to flora Beach Calo Ratpada Libe- dant. Exactly as dere vill. Largest fl 28 mm broad. 7-30-31 Ammi Vianaga Lam Kn T 238, Bar 209, Bar 189, Cote I 3/10 Flo shrubs frs. Roadside in Montuire region. Ammi calabre. 783 7-30-32 Ridolfia segetum Moris Kn T 251, Bar 576, Cote I 2/5, See Crithium - L. Bon 206. Fl 4 frs. Field east of Elgaide? Many fields now yellow with this which is heavily suggestin Foeniculum vulgare in certain details but which has quite different habit & growth. Plants 8-18 in high v bruskly with spreading ascending branches (F. is much taller & less bushy) more lky than F. is at flowering time. Primary vessels, dry scgs, lvs factoid (i.e. bare for rather long distance at base), and upper sheaths bear real lvs (not thynque) merely an elongated sheath with a few blunt filiform appendages as in F.). Petals are defunct. Apex v curved inward exactly as ill (Cote) (F. has xip). petal longer v entire - thuse. Fr 2 mm high, slightly compressed laterally, more nearly cylind- rical than ill (Cote). Mericarps smooth, & x ascend. argyilo brown, filiform showing plainly (20 X) the s permary als filiform but lighter blue.