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9-17-34 Silybum Marianum Gärtner. SUKI 706
= S. marianum Gaertn. Coste II 362, Bon 174, BMJCP
793 = Carduus Marianus L. BVH 368. Lf only. Focke
in Rd north of Pont du Seax. Roette of lonely (2 plants)
seen) looking exactly as known in Mallorca.
[9-28-34] If only "Chicken House" just north of Rhone. Bouveret ->
Villeneuve]
9-17-34 Ajuga genevensis L. Coste III 139; Bon 256; BVH
375; All II 298; G 692; BMJCP 650; SUKI 553 Fl. Field Noville ->
Yonvry. Only one plant seen not near any dwelling.
No signs of the runners so evident from much
earlier in season on A. reptans. What sort 3 inches low
ground is a bunch of fibrous roots and from them
& thicker portions extend upward to surface.}
grounds terminate in what seems to be two
separate plants if entire root not collected. Fibrous
roots also found at base of stems top and along
these upward extending roots below. One of these
plants consists of only large basal lvs. The other plant
has stem 4 inches high. It hairy on all sides with
jointed (BMJCP) spreading hairs; many blades
are 3 mm long. Lvs with slender spreading hairs, with
entire type teeth. Largest lvs (or stemless plant) to
10x4 1/2 cm on a broad petiole +- 9 cm long (petiole
margined at top or throughout with the decurrent
edges of lf-blade). The basal lv's on the flowering plant
were fresh when collected and as large as on the
other plant. The succeeding lvs progressively
(but not abruptly) smaller & progressively mor