Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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7-25-33 Allium senescens L (= A. montanum Schmidt) SUT I 146 Fl Rockers de Naye (See 7-22-31) Siems to be questionable to SUT and, since st are 15cm v los no wider than st, this is perhaps var petraeum (Lam v DC) SUT # 63. See A. fallax Roem vs (= A. serotinum Selb) Cota III 341 and A. fallax Don Bon 299 more of which names appear in SUT. 7-25-33 Polygala alpestris Releb. SUT I # 34. Fl v almost ripe fr . Rockers de Naye. This is the spec collected frequently from RdN. Port strong almost woody, branching at top into many slender (v again trailing) st & whk lie more or less flat in grass making a + circular grotole. St 5-10cm long. These are rather naked at base (in it may be at least some lower leaves fallen v then are thickly leafy all way up to (but not into) the infl. The lowest but about the + naked bases) are oval oblate, obscure about 7 x 4 mm. v ifter rather more crowded than those above but can by synonym be considered a rosette as in P. calcarea P.alpina, or P. annarella (See Cota I 16 4 v Bon III 20-23 v Bon 48) The next few low may be rather smaller but they soon increase in length until the largest (below the infl) are 10-15 x 3-4 mm. D infl 6-12 fl. Corolla tube about 3.5mm v the free portion about the same, the division between tube & free portions (of this is