Field notebooks : Newfoundland, 1927-1937
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A. 5½ in high. Sterile frond 3 in wide B. 3 in high " " 2 in wide. Fertile spiked double (See Clute 56) [B. tenerum S.w. var. rutacifolium DC. Eaton G49: B. matricariae Spreng BOBIS. [See 9-10-30 9-13-39 Veronica americana Schwein G729, BOB II20 Flunripe fr Whitecliff brooklet from spring. 9-13-39 Fr. Whitecliff moving. General look Cruciferae but not found in G or BOB. Evidently annual from the few weak roots. St, in one case, 2oin high ) which upper 2-3in is raceme. Lvs (none seem) to have been opp on slender pedicels v what pubescence remains is straight( just poss gland- lai) Flo opp, the slender pedicel & the pods 4 mm. Pod suggest Thlaspi but is not winged or crested. Almost orbicular, 1cm diam, very flat transversely to the narrow-dissepiment. Pod dehiscent along edges from top downward v the 2 cells also tend to break apart from each other at the base of the dissepiment. Seeds several in each cell on axile placentae and evidently attached directly without a funicle. Seed brown, very flat, ear-shaped, ribinged so that