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Calyx 1/2 mm long, erect. Teeth are 2mm. Calyx
whitish green with brown nerves. Teeth concave,
reddish, rounded at f. ciliata. Petals (withered)
when studied) hardly longer than Calyx. Claw
thin & transparent with 3 red nerves. Blade deep
red, notched (not deeply so). Seales at throat pink-
red with 2 oblong lobes fully 1 mm long. Filaments
glabrous. Carpelule light pulverulent, (now) 4mm
long. Pod (non) approaching cylindrical, 7mm
long, glabrous. Linder 1mm, almost circular lid-
ney shaped, thicker than A 3-12-32, sides some-
what concave, dorsal groove shallow, edges thick
& rounded with signs of minute cross veining
so at long as internodes. Stamens not exerted.
Upper bracts longer than the fl (the one fl opened)
but stand erect along st. This evidently should
be in Bar #145-152) which all carefully consid-
ered if then perhaps S. sericea Allm & Volckar
Wells is best guess - S. sericea Allf. forma ambigua
Knuth I 469 zu S. sericea All. Cota I 178
3-12-32 ? Frankenia pulverulenta L. Knuth 189, Bar 59
Don 40, Cota I 165 to fl of fs. Can Pasella - Gueval obre or
back road. A delicate vasill (Cota). Leaf 6 x 4mm distinctly
"pulverulent" beneath. Side of fl often somewhat droopy,
the edge not strictly revolute (See 3-30-32)