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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-