Field notebooks : Newfoundland, 1927-1937
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7-28-37 continued Eupatorium purpureum L. var maculatum D. G 182 = E. maculatum L. BvBII 356 Fl. 8-1-37 Galium asprellum Michx G 750 Fl. Common all around Dump Pool Cabin. 8-1-37? Ranunculus repens L. G 397, BvBII 113. Fl. Due little bit just behind Dump Pool Cabin. In site, plant looks too large in all respects for R.repens. But when compared with specimens (familiar aspect) from path towards spring this seems a strong likelihood they are same species. Plant 2 ft or more from base to tip. Now reclining (but poss. only because region has been trampled & worked in). No runners found but suspicious signs of "rooting at nodes". Bowdite making it no too large to find seed (baset et. al.) but in shape, cutting & hairiness very suggestive of R.repens. St. v pedicles with spreading hairs as in R.s. Peduncle followed receptacle hairy as in R.s. The heads of fl. (all achenes maturing) globose about 9mm high by almost as wide (they look large). Achenes (green in color & falling as they ripen) 4+mm from tip of beak to base. Which beak is 1mm; 2½ mm. broad. Achenes very like BvB'sillg R.s. Even more than does the achenes of the plant leanon to be R.s. which is slightly more nearly circular in outline & has beak