Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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8-11-33 Circea intermedia F-lhls Coats II 84, Box 105, ByH 160, S 682, S VI 471. F-fl young fs. Rhion fpf. Cape des Narcisses with C. lutetiana l. with which cph asates with C. l.-9 8-2-33 Villeneuve-Arment (See also desc.) C. alpina l. 8-27-31.) Plants 13-25 cm high with different look than C. l.-due to: glabrous or reddish at nodes, less glabrous (as desc S VI), thin- ner, more nearly sliming sharper toothed & as arranged that plant has a flat-topped look under the infl. Minute bracts present as desc 8-27-31) lengthy base & linear tip usually much less than 1 mm. Sepals 5mm, petals 3mm, or rather less. Petals plainly "en coin" as cph with the rounded base of C. l.-Ovary less nearly spherical than in C. l.-and the neck (under opened fl) is rather more than 1/2 as long as ovary (i.e. neck is 1 mm long as in C. l.)-ovary less than 2 mm (in C. a 9 8-27 this neck practically nil) Disk less pronounced than in C. l.-Stigma distinctly 3-lobed. Very young fs. def 2-cells with ovule in each cell. Plants erect from the ascending ends of horizontal root stalks [?] about the same thickness as st. From this underground root stalks issue very slender pinkish runners with distant paired of opp. scales. St. glabrous below the ± gland-fest. infl. Petioles grooved (bilobed) with short up-curved hairs on margin (C. l.-has sts & pet. pub. all around (lvs?) then pub. on upper surface as well as on veins beneath)