Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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5-18-31 Stamens (on short free part & on ridges below) hairy. Style glabrous (but any hairy). Flo looks fairly the same old as Podophyllum peltatum flm. St. of this spc. def flattened to oval below but not angular. 5-18-31 Bromus sterilis L. Coats III 646, Bon 368 BVH 551, & 164. F.L. Klein (See ? 4-18-30, desc very like this.) St above upper lemmas or quite glabrous. Branches half whorled with enlarged glabrous pads in axil (as 4-18-30), to 2 1/4 in. naturally [ciliate] but sometimes branched bearing 2 spikelets. Spike lets nowine. awns about 2 1/2 in. Styles inserted about the middle of pubescent ovary. Lemma has nerves each side & mid-nerv less distinct than mid-nerv & the 2 nerves near edges each side (as 4-18-30) Lemma bidentate with teeth subulate. Pales def but distantly ciliate [6-4-34 F.R. Vauclusemin Y-M -> Montreux under R.R. Spikelet, upper part & wt purple.] 5-18-31? Bromus erectus Huds. Coats III 645, Bon 367 BVH 550, & 164. F.L. Klein. Idem very uncertain but surely B. and no other seems likely. Past perennial with many young shoots coming up beside fl-calm, all whitish mouldy looking (below ground) or more or less entangled in remains of old low hrs on these shoots folded 2mm wide when opened out), hairy on back & edges so