Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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is def dark rose in effect. Note also that while some of fr. developed as expected some of the ovaries are more elongated (perhaps not fertile) diff. as desc A & B sometimes found on same plant. 8-24-33 Epilobium rosanum folium Huenche Cote II 97, Box 104 = E. Dodonaei sap - Selung v Telling SVI 466 Fl. Bouveret Plage. Very bushy, twiggy & lffy. But prob not sap. Fleischer's SVI since his are all less than 3mm wide & the plants as remembered were more than 40cm high (the bunch collected was 30cm) and fls seem exactly same color as those seen elsewhere. ? 8-24-33 Polygonum minus Nudo. Cote III 207, Box 400, SVI 213 Flw fr. Bouveret-Villeneuve. Tozo at farm at head of inlet slightly north of Rhone bridge but not at all sure. Very raised because percent is not "rouge vineux" but greenish white. Plant prob decumbent, branched near base into aerial slender sts. to 1 1/2 ft long 1/8 to ?cm long the widest 7mm but mostly 5-6mm (some 3-4 mm may be young & not fully developed) Ls squaral at base & almost equally wide to the middle or beyond then tapering good gradually to a very acuminate tip. Ls with stiff appressed hairs on mid-nib [above] beneath & edges. Sheaths with similar hairs and long fringes. Bracts glabrous along fringed. Percent & perfs never