Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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4-23-31 Potentilla Fragariostrum Fitch (Same as 4-15-31 which see) Fl. glion. Plant in dense clumps from one root which sends up many stems clothed with leaves, which bear the slender flower- ing branches in axils. Some of these at any later be creeping but no real runners not evi- dent. Petals pure white, emarginate v more def. cuneate at base than Fragaria. --. Stamens with slender filaments hardly enlarged at base v anthers opening so that pollen covered surface faces inward. Receptacle pubescent, not scabrous. Style pale green slender 2mm long. Flo 10 mm dia. leaves smaller than Fragaria, yellowish green, with net veins showing more distinctly beneath. 4-23-31 Fragaria Fl. glion Cfd with above. Plant not in dense tuft. Lower 1-2 in from start v clothed dead remains of olde v runner, this year's two v flowering stems all proceeding from its top. Old runners numerous slender, to 2 ft long sometimes branched. Petals somewhat less purely white than above (partly perhaps because a light veining which makes them less smooth), rounded v cuneate at apex and rounder at base (i.e. much more nearly circular in outline. Filaments def. larger at base than at apex. Anthers flat-