Field notebooks : Mallorca, 1930-1935
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3-12-32 ? Scleropoa rigida Gris Kt I/3/12, Bas503 Box 364, Costa III-624 = Poa — L. Bsx# 679 I-F. Road back of Can Pastilla but frequently seen in Majorca. Ident almost certain. The very short branches often have only 2 spikelets: one terminal, the other near very base but in the cases bears as many as 5—probably sessile spikelets. Lemmas & 5-nerved, 2mm long. See Withill Tet CLYII) Deomageria balearica which Kt I/3/14 says "certainement proche du Scleropoa rigida" Also to ?end. Lvs hardly "rude" 619 3-12-32 Cerastium Fls Fz. Can Pastilla-Grenal. Possibly with Draba vernal x Maleociza arenaria but not sure. 5to 7cm high. Plant def hairy with a spreading base, not at all glandular or viscosous. Lowest lvs close together forming almost a rosette. The very lowest spikelet measuring to petiolate base, the higher ones at one oblong oval sessile 3-5 x2mm. Lvs thickish but tender. Illacuse lateral nervs seem to run from base to apex, or at lvs v bracts showing def tendency to curve //to edge of lf. Bracts blue lvs but smaller not long enough full. Fls few, the lowest on pedicel 2.5mm, reflexed (in r), Calyx almost 4mm long, hairy but hairs not long enough to cover the sharp serrated tips of sepals. Inside edges of sepals also shining white & lvsire. Sepals faintly 1-3-nerved lvs view from inside my med pressure: Petals about ½ length of sepal, narrow, jointed-