Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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regular, the slender teeth longer than tube, the upper teeth def. scale shaped & curved to clear the narrower lower teeth rather less so. F. 2 4- 10 mm long, well exceeding calyx, opening only on upper side, 3-seeded (in capsules studied?) calyx of ten perfoliate. No decisions as to which of the 4 species into which SVK I divides M. pratense is too 2. 9-18-31 Herbario nationalist (See 6-14-31) F & H. Lea Districts, Fl purple. Pods very spreading, 40 to 5 1/2 in long. Seeds with thin edged top & a complete seed on other side & partition. 9-18-31 Phalaris arundinacea L. var picta L. Cote II 537, X 131, BMQCP 112, SVK I 21. See Baldingera arundinacea Dunot Bon 349 F2. Cult. 1-20 Districts. 9-18-31 Betula pendula Roth. SVK I 196, BMQCP 229 X 395 = B. alba L. Cote II 375, Bon 289, BVH 4/9. VIII = 332 (for diff from B. pub. escens L. W.) Fr. & staminate brds (2 cm long). & Districts roadside (a scrawny young tree, just planted) F2 2cm long. Seeds with lateral lobes more def reflexed than all Cote v BVH VIII & relatively to terminal lobe larger. Seed like all Cote) with wings twice as broad as seed & far surpassing styles.