Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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overall. lf to 6-8 cm long x 15 to 20 mm wide. 4-30-31 Carex digiata L. Coats # 510, Box 337, BS#H 514 Fl just fading. Stem. Tufted with 2 (in case studied) stems which for ½ in or more at base are covered with shreds of old leaves. Leaves all from base, about as high as culms, 2-3 mm broad, rough to touch esp. when dry. Culms about 15 cm high, serrula from each st., erect, very slender, ridged but not obviously 3-angled, naked except for a few short, red, sheath ring bracts at base (these bracts with short ≤ 3-4 mm) sutulate blades. ♂ spikes about 1 cm long, narrow; its scales red-brown but with broad white edges; tips which make the spike pale than the ♀ spike. ♀ spikes (c.f.s.) not more than 1.5 cm. Scales broad- edged toward the rounded and (sometimes) apiculate tip, brown with green nerve down backs. Scales now as long as the trigonous, clothed, puberulent perigynia. Bracts sheathing, more or less reddish 14 mm or less long with blunt sutulate blade. 4-30-31 Linaria Cymbalaria Mill. Coats # 15, Box 232, BS#H 341, A. 920 = Cymbalaria muralis Gaertn. B.M.JC.R. 676 = C. Cymbalaria Wettst. Fl. Bet Klein Montreux.