Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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11-5-32? Chrysanthemum Balsamita L. BMJCP 760. See #847 v. III: 62, old fruit & poorly developed. From Mrs. Kennedy Valdemoro "in cultivated land La Comuna. Plant about 4 ft high". St erect with light colored ribs, congestuous on lower part & at base. The ribs on lower part all around or upper part is a very fine pubescence. Lvs as desc. (BMJCP), the largest 3½ x 1½ in., with the same fine mossier pubescence, and with scent glands dots visible 20x. Lvs when rubbed have sweet fragrant odor*. Petioles often with a pair of tiny lip-like lobes at base; these lobes often toothed. Spacing ascent along 1 lateral branch & 6 in. and one main st. with young branches appearing in axils of lvs. Heads are in small clusters at tip of branch (and 1 main st.) about 6 in number v probably weren't more than ¾ in diam. Heads (now withered) seem rayless. Disk flat v naked, achene ribbed with "small crown". Ident. prob. correct. * Minty smell. 11-7-32 Centaurea intybecea Lam. (see 9-16-32) old fruit, incl. heads with poorly developed fs. From Mrs. Kennedy "La Cobia, Alqueria Blanca, near Recñola". The empty heads now closed at top v almost spherical, yellow- tan color, with the ciliation of bracts mereapicen-