Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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" spires 2-3, the lower often distinctly short peduncled, the upper often with infl in upper part, lvs 4-5 mm wide. Lower bract suff folaceous always exceeding its spire v sometimes reaching well toward the tip of infl, no sheath. Stigmas all fallen but the decidedly lenticular seed indicates that they were 2. 5-25-34 Salix triandra L. (see 5-5-34) F2, Path Villeneuve -> La Tranquette edge greeds with Cardamine amara of 5-25-34. Traced in S & K Costa. Looks exactly like ill Costa except stypules (now) small (2x1 mm). Channels on young shoots just visible to eye but very evident 20X. [8-17-34 prof of f2 La Tranquette presumably S. triandra, lvs almost as white as S. alba beneath but glabrous. See B & H] 5-25-34 ? Festuca arundinacea Seliet. Costa III 635, Bon 368, S & K 79, B & H II # 464. Earlyfl. Causeway Rhône Bridge -> Noville. (Collected with the mistaken idea that it was a Vlyceria). Key S & K brings one to this ident. Infl 25 cm high, now contracted but has possibilities of resembling B & H III. The longer lower branches are sometimes compound as ill, the shorter lower branches simple with 3 spikeslets. Lemma broadly scarious at the acute tips. Duesy whitish later as this margin shows less plainly the lemma; the def. midrif would be prominent (like in Olystans). The mid rib is scarcely "scabrid" v seems unlikely to look like ill "D." or "E" Legule 1 mm or less high, ± lacerate. Earst evident. Lf-blade very suffly on edge where it joins the sheath.