Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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Exterior divisions with dark markings on edges very noticeable in bud. The one I flowers has 7 perfect divisions and ovary is stigma 4-lobed? Culturs to outside. Plants thought to be seedlings had 1 filament of only 10 30cm. 3-8-32 Veronica arvensis L. Flowering young &. At handloom place (pubescent) and field above lakea. Annual also 2-4cm, hairy via many spec hairs tending towards 2 lines. Lower lw of apper alt. never more than 5mm long, very distinct pedicel, upper ones sessile. Corolla 2mm high & only about 1/2 as long as the longest of the con- siderably unequal calyx lobes. Corolla white (ironed once bleached blue & 3mm high). Pedicels much shorter than 4p when flowering, but thought to become longer afterwards. Sepals olong with with the long spreading pubescence mostly gland -tipped. Style (2 & H) 1/2 mm long. Ovary glabrous on sides but def. almost hairy on edge. (These crossed out applied to a plant which may perhaps have been V. agrestis? (which only a part collected). Note Br#349 says corolla "or nearly white". 3-8-32 Lotus orithopodioides L. Kn#78, Bas#132, Rom 81, Cates #59 Fl Espolao-Valdemara & cordobae j dinida. Flos 3-4; 8mm long.