Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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[Mrs. K. reports that New after first thinking this a Rhamnus admits that it is a "Bladder Campion" ] K. decides! 11-3-32 ? Silene Circinalis [wib.] No tags. From Mrs. Kennedy from Puig Mayo "very summit in stony ground." Shrub evidently flat on ground, the gnarly stem 1 cent thick, branched. Older base branches have slight thorny effect. 1 or are found on younger shoots. Branchlets v lvs opp. The young shoots still almost base the scales of buds from which they issued. Lower oldest lvs bear no sign of stipules, but bases were joined with definite line (as in many plants of pink family) But note that just inside this line is sometimes found a pair (i.e. see 2 to me pair) of small oval veined members which might be desiduous stipules or leaves there are perhaps sometimes 4 ) might be bud scales of the bud which continues the shoot. Lvs obviate to 13' x 60-7 mm wide, entire, rounded v emacrate at apex, narrowed at base into what might be considered a very short (1mm) petiole. Lvs thin glabrous (not at all coriaceous), grey-green, finely net veined with veins almost purplish on the lower. Lvs (ats.) close together at tips of the shoot frigo (as that faces overlaps. Sap not milky as far as discernable v lvs without odor. Could this possibly be to fox lonicera peregrina L. forma major? seems to look like it Nw II: 43) Sel L. - L. Bar 217, Cate 23%. Later spring which Mrs. Kennedy says