Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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9-24-34 Taste: I love them so much. Flo greenish white. Corolla 4mm (2+2). Wings (ffs) 4 x1 mm. F2. 5'x4mm. Seed 2mm with appendages not nearly half its length. Plant growing formula not f curling left, the center composed of bs. The fls at around the edges of the left. The ats had all been cut (or bitten) off so that the fl-s are all lateral. 9-24-34: Atropa Belladonna L. Costa II 615; Bm 227; BmN 330; BM CP 657; SVKI 598 No fls fr. Les Chants, in the large or path leading up to H.A. Very slowly above the junction with the path leading out to the klin -H.A. sif [see Polygala amarella]. Plant agrees exactly with descrill (Costa). De P. says he thinks it is "Belladonna". Very tiny bud, developed in lime from specimens collected 7-1-34) are solitary, axillary and have a 5-lobed calyx but are too young to show further characteristics [9-27-34: Fls unripe ffs. Frequent on lower part of new road Nermont junction -> Caux] 9-25-34 Impatiens parviflora DC. SVKI 445; BVH 99 Bm II 118; Costa III 719 Fls unripe fr. Aigle at entrance to Golf Course on Aigle-Vionnaz Rd. General effect exact- ly as in BmH II but fl certainly no more than 1/2 as large as ill, i.e. from tip of lower to tip of upper petale pts about 10-15mm (not more). Fls pale yellow with darker markings.