Field notebooks : Newfoundland, 1927-1937
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by waters edge, Culma filipern tobin high, striate. leeds broader than culm, Culma scentiflo's flanged from slender horizontal rootstock. (Perhaps stuffed effect is result of plants growing betw stones.) Rootstock brown shining. Fertile culms rare for it it seemed from one point. Sterile culms sometimes single. Sheath brown at base, else green above or darker straw tip ending in a blunt 1-ridged point on one side. Head 3-8 mm long. Scales purple with hyaline whitish edges v tip, acute, the nerve evident almost to tip. Paleae not developed but have much the look of undeveloped paleae. ? E. palustris R&S, tubercle like ill[?], tho now distinguishable. Stigmas 2-3eft. Bristles 4 downwardly barbed. 524 8-31-30 Eleocharis palustris RVS & SS BY ST 3/4 Ft. Highlands Pond 2 1/2 ft deep. Cladote. No essentially found. Culm 2-3 mm diam.. 525 8-31-30 Equisetum variegatum Schleich & 57 BY BI #2 Near mouth of Butler Blk, bluff on its side. Sheaths not "loose" tho teeth sometimes flaring. Cenurim at least sometimes less than 1/3 diam roap.