Field notebooks : Newfoundland, 1927-1937
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spikes mostly crowded at tip of culm but sometimes another is borne low on culm via 3 instances the lower perigynia fore small spikes (normal perigynia from inside. None opened to see if the protoperigynia also fore enclosed. 5-37 9-5-30 Festuca in shade Fr (not developing) Highlands Camp (hy toilet?) C&F Festuca 8-31-30 low platform inside, innovations extraneous? (i.e. branches pierce thru sheath instead of lunging at it waning at top & dieing). Plant seems to lack very slender handling root stock. Culm 15 in, genic- lated (like 8-31-30), much slenderer, inflates same general expression. Low on sterile branches short (where there were many maturing stuff in 2 of roots free) & 1/8 in, soft w dropping. Lemma 6 mm & awl 1 mm is pub. 538 9-5-30 Comandra loida A.R.C. Richards 4 350 BVT 640 Fr. Col by J.W. Theisoe when blueberrying Island Highlands Camp. To 7 in high. Never more than 2 fascicles to a st. Fascicles usually 1-fruited (1 case 2-fruited) but sears difficult to see visible horizontal underground at (a sort stock dug up 4 ft but could not determine on what plant parasite. Don't trinity grew: Kalium angustifolius, Rubus Chamaemorus, Ledum groenlandicum Chamaedaphne calyculata, vaccinium pennsylvanicum & Myrica Gale.