Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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edge is nearest tip & leaf. 2-26-32 Euphorbia dendroides L. KnII 151, Bar 4/4 Bon 399, Cost# 241 Fl. Angewest of Mrs Nells (see 3-26 -30) [L. simplex DC. (ace to Kew-5-2-32)] 3-1-32? Linaria arvensis Desf var. micrantha Bg KnII 378 = L. micrantha Spreng Cost# 22 [Bar]. F-lyng sent by Mrs Kennedy from Cindiaix. Stem (as sent) 1⅞m high, 7 which upper terminal flowers well old pods, each outluded by bract extending at widest intervals to the compact shoot inflo at top. Largest lbs 18x4mm v pods 'subtimervied' Corolla no more than 4mm, with def blue lines (20x) to make it look dark blue to eye. Its tube is undstat base, 1+mm, xspur is only a conical tooth less than 1mm long (Vi. angularus me shape rather than as if Cote). The articulus winged seeds 1-1.5mm diam are tuberculate v one side. Calyx lobe gland-pub. but not ciliate. General effect is more like ill of L. arvensis Desf (Bon 234 & Cote than like ill of L. micranthia [Cote] but tuberculate seeds v tooth like spur seem to decide in favor of L. micrantha [L. arvensis Desf var simplex Chev.] KnII 378 = L. simplex DC. Bon 234, Cote# 22 ] 3-1-32? Melilotus italica Lambe KnI 98, Bar 1/2, Bon 76, Cote I 322. F-ly young fr. sent by Mrs Kennedy from Cindiaix. St stout, strongly ridged v sturged red. Plant found at Raxa. Perhaps cultivated.