Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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"hedge sprawls through the gardens. Sends out shoots 20 ft long or more" 11-17-32 Crocus sativus L. BM 303, Cat III 360, BMJCP. 200. Fl. Cult. Mrs. Nicbet's garden, San Augustine. Styles fully equaling perianth and for overflowing the anthers Perianth segs. purple to very base but "farbescence on throat" not discernible in H. (withering when studied) 11-17-32 Gomphrena globosa L. BMJCP 354 Fl. Cult. Mrs Nicbet's garden. Fl heads bright cerese-purple v clover- like in appearance. Exactly as desc except that the lvs have no more hairs or edges than on the surfaces. Receptacle woolly reach fl. subtended by a bract which persists after fl falls. These bracts are ovate, broad based, acute tipped, V equal. curved around the fl, 1/4-1/3 as long as fl. Each fl consist of 2 erect, colored bracts about 11 mm high, strongly keeled & enclosing the other floral parts. Perianth hardly more than 1/2 as long as these bracts, its 5 narrow linear, stiffy erect segs. are coloured at tips which is scarious glabrous, but below tip on back are densely woolly with long white matted hairs (no mention of this in BMJCP.) staminal tube as desc. BMJCP. Style deeply 2-cleft, shorter than staminal tube.