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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