Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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Spittle duster than infd but otherwise not in condition to study. Percent not now speaking as done (Cote) 8-6-34 Crepis foaludras Moench. Cote. II 446; BvH 21% ; Svt I 732 = Sycoria — Rd. Bon 190 F. Lt young fr. Eilten. abov Coldejamun (near? Heiracium perantlssides Vill.) or towards Kesalley. st hollow (SVT) rarely can. persible, purplish at base (SvK). Less ill (Cote) except that articles (esp of upper ribs) more deeply bultate & printed? (BvH and SVT). Fr now almost imm long. (ribs can not be counted) 8-6-34 Aspidium (Creopteris S.W. BvH 52 = Polystichum — DC. Cote # 689, Bon 378 = Dryopteris — Maxon. SVT freqent. I 5. Sp in all stages. Kesalley just below road. Cf with A. Filix-mas. Frons easily distinguishable even without ap hy (1) yellowish color (A. F is dark green) and (2) pinnae decreasing to hardly more than ears at base of frond (in A. F- they never get so small) (3) yellow glands on mid & side veins and back of frond, (4) edges globes very somewhat recurved (in fr the narrow line of tiny spores around edges of lobes is unmistakable) & the papillae edge (SVT, very distinct 20 X), (5) the 2 fiber bundles in stipe (A. F- has 5 at least). Note that edges are revolutes enough to make the pinnae concave.