Field notebooks : Newfoundland, 1927-1937
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8-18-29? Epilobium palustre L. G 577, BvB III 572 Fr. (Specimen collected bet. 8-11 and 8-18, at Faceola Plain, Stephenville Crossing or bet. Crabbs Station & Highers Pond.) No current lines on st. Poor specimen as main st has been cut & has branched from below. L is not "grayish-velvety" or "canescent" (lateral veins inconspicuous) so per B. this seed 1 3/4 mm long (ie. rather more than "1/2 line" 8-19-29 Lobelia kalmii L. G 769, BvB III 30 B Fr. Rd. bet. School House & Highlands Camp, west side. Corolla blue with conspicuous white spot at base of lower lip. The 2 protuberances at base of lower lip & the tube below with greenish spots (4 in all). But pedicels (all except very lowest) longer than bracts and in young fr., when pod is 7mm long it projects fully 2mm beyond top of calyx tube. Filaments dilicate towards base. Corolla tube 5mm. St. lvs 1 1/2 x 1/6 in, teeth represented by callus spots but not projecting. [See 9-5-29 # 125 8-19-29 Gentiana Amarella L. var. acuta Nees. G 657: G. acuta Michx BvB III 9 Fr. On flat at little Harbor Point and along edge [moving at edge of bluff?] just so. J McClennans Cove. (See 7-16-29) 1 1/4" S in clus. Fls 3/8-1/2 in on slender pedicels (from very short