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9-16-27 Epilobium
Fr. Crafts River in little forest Whittingford upper cabin
v on beach at Whitecliff. On grassaceous because seed
have tuft of silky hairs Epilobium. Plant conspicuously
grayish green with short incurved hairs (hairs A
longer plentiful enough to account for color) & spright
or decumbent, very leafy & branched. St. purplish.
Loos appx oval, sessile lanceolate, entire, largest
3 1/8 x 5/4 in but mat loo 1/2 x 7/6 in. Margins not
revolute. Capsules short pedicelled & 2 1/6 in w/8
hairs like rest of plant. Cona white. Seeds
keeledge and (38x) minutely roughened in
lines. F. molle Torr & 576 = E. strictum Nuttall
BvBH 692 seems best guess.
9-16-27 Betula
Fr. Prob bet. Crafts Rd. & Whittingford lower camp Crafts
River. Very like all B. manal. Bv BI 612 (not in #)
one of fruiting bracts 3-lobed. Twigs pubescent &
only very sparsely (if at all) glandular waxy. Lo
not obviously glandular dotted below, hence
prob not B. glandulosa Michx. Wings nutlet
thick & not wider than body of fr. Bract glabrous,
ciliate, covering only body of fr. Wings of fr. project
ing on both sides), prominently embossed below,
then curved in and tip curved outward