Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
Page 47
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Harvard University Botany Libraries. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
3/12/32 as parasitgus. Field where grew was really maritime sand. In stand erect along st. (See 3) 3/26/32 v) 4/22/32 whole shot stalk to capsule parasitic on Bar #1572/152. Poss S.gallica L. or more likely S.decipiens Barcel. Ade 61. 6/12. [RB S.rubella L. See Resident] #639) 3-28-32 which RBX that same at #612] 3/12/32 Silene FL RR track bet Can Pchll & San Francisco (i.e east) & P.) Note that in one place land is really salt sand with Eriogonum maritimum, Duda Erihmodete etc but don't remember whether this found with them. Root slender as annual v white. Stude emergent at base & perhaps not completely erect, 10-12 in tall, dark green tinged reddish at nodes, pub erulent but not at all glandular or viscid. (No glands or viscosity on plant anywhere). Lower lvts with weak young branches in axils v upper lvts with beginning of branches. Lvs long-apiculate to broadly ob-lanceolate (middle those in crores) 4-6x1.5 cm long tapered to base, the lower ones somewhat narrower and long tapered to base, the upper ones shorter about 3-4x1 cm and almost straight sided not tapering to base. Lvs puberulent, ciliate at the joined bases. Lvs both edges ruffled (esp upper ones) and edges of upper lvts Infl (now) consists of 8 lobed at apex (suggesting unilateral decuspidescence) absent. Bracts like lvs but smaller. Pedicels about 1cm long. Calyx not umbellie, slender at base and (infl.) only slightly enlarged upward.