Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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8-5-31 Linaria minor Desf. Cote III/18, Bon 237, SVI 376. Flys for Blinn Path V-M to V-M Halle. Plants 20-29 cm high (perhaps others not H.S.L. higher). Short slender taproot with few fibrous roots suggests annual. Rosetted low-honest low tips, otherwise all alt. Plant branched below middle; branches ample spreading, short, less than at. All green parts finely gland-hairy (ie at. lower calyx). Lowest brs oval 15 x 5 mm, or petiole 3.5 mm of these both ends thickish, entire, midnerve only apparent. Upper brs similar but somewhat thinner and linear 20 x 3 mm overall, without def petiole. 24V branches bearing flo (from below middle). Flo solitary in axil of lf (below with short branch above in axil of lf). Pedicels in 1/2 to 1 cm, shorter than lf about twice as long as calyx. Only one per max at centre, left. These 6 mm overall of which spur is 2 mm, slightly pale, pub; not gland, upside. Tube purplish, inside upper lip paler at white; lower lip still more nearly white, with 2 broad purple stripes inside, which stripes are well furnished below with yellow hairs. Palate seems to close throat entirely. Calyx lobes in H 3-4 mm, not def unequal, narrow of use. Capsule 5 mm high, slightly shorter than calyx, opening by 2 slit at top. Seeds dark brown, rather cylindrical, 1 mm long marked longitudinally with about 9-12 sharp ridges (not wings) some of which are broken or partial (not toothed). Lehill Co and BVH except points as noted. For adventive species see SVI II 297