Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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5-24-31 white, transparent, irreg. beautifully fluted. 5-24-31 Utricularia foliosa L. Coste I 249, Bon 57, BvH 94. Fl. young fr. Alion. Paths Vertaux at watering trough junction with rd from Chambaud. St. 2/4 in high. St. pubescent with longish white spreading hairs and, increasingly toward top, with also short glandular pubescence. Lvs all elliptic only 1 at each node of sp. peduncle) differing in this from U. silvaticum which has upper lvs of each subtending a branch usually with a 2d peduncle of flowering branch in between. Sepds more oblong than U. silvaticum & their gland-pubescence black-tipped. Filaments as broad at base (1mm) as U. silvaticum and hairs much longer. Ovaries het. Stamens very large. Petals slightly crenate. Fl. 2cm diam., flat like potato fl. [6-8-34 Note that all found to date medowless var. lutea DC, SV/ I 424. Miss Mrs Ewan says she has one in garden with fls almost black] 5-24-31† Silene nutans L. Coste I 176, Bon 49, BvH 65, & 385. Fl. Alion in wall het Mont-Fleuri and Val-Mont farms. Calyx 10-nerved, gland-pubescing at cly to buckle (as is most of it) 12mm high (l whic. teeth 2-3 mm), tubular, widest in middle (3-4 mm). Zone of teeth shortest than those with this white margins (do not seem strictly alternate). Claws exserted 2-3mm. Fl 2cm wide (¼ leaf), hedges cut almost to base in wide spreading V. Styles projecting 15 mm. Stamens reaching about to throat. (But frst stamens not developed) 1-fl condite with claws & underside of petals greenish. (BvH) blasy