Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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8-2-33 edge (esp in young fr.) Anthers greenish with lines of red-brown or white of deliquesced. Styles hardly projecting above disk (when anthers de- liesed) but later (in young fr.) styles 1+ mm long, strongly reflexed & extending beyond edge of disk and disk & styles red. All frs seem female. Largest fr now 3-4mm on pedicel of 9 mm. Ovary rather also flattened bell, the develops into an almost ovate form only slightly flattened, but in oldest fr now the edges are getting thinner & the 3 dorsal veins are turning into ridges. St widely hollow and juice milky (BVH). St defgen'd. 1 was all (Cates); pedicels usually ridged & hollow; sheath not dilated. Edges in mericarps continuous. [9-29-33 Fr. Fr 4mm high, notched at tope. Face & mereals w/ a spongy coat (SVH)] BVH 201, 2llII #206 8-2-33 Delicium Carpholia L. Cates #172, Box 136 & SVHI 496 Fl. Prod in Vallenewer marsh w/la above. This has so much the look of Penedanum polystiche that when col. it was thought to be the same. But the ridges on st are definitely thin-edged (towards base) & the thin wing-like edges can be bent with the fingers and immediately under nmbel they are ruffled.) Involl none; involucrel of many weakly retaceous not reflexed bracts. St. solid w/ white piste. No stamens found. Disk conical, styles 3mm long spreading, much longer than disk. Petals erect crowded disk (ie