Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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5-24-34 Amaryllidaceae. Fl. Drape garden. Root not collected. 11 in. overall. St. very glabrous, gray-green. Not perfectly but not perfectly straight. Basal lvs (of which probably several) 10 in long, 9-5 mm wide at base, with a frown channel running all the way into the very fine acuminate tip (effect grass blade). Leaves narrow white margin which is papillate edge (20%). St. lvs similar but obtuse. Fls blue (tinge violet) Pericalls 4 cm long, its 6 seg sep's base but coherent to look like a flaring tube (2 cm long) the rest of seg spread- ing recurved. Lest seg narrowly oblong, 8 mm wide near tip very sensibly diminishing to base, inner seg similar, 5 mm near tip thence more nearly linear. 2 (or tacily more) darker veins run length- wise segment. All seg with a sharp tip at backy apex. Stamens 6, filaments slender, same color as perianths, affixed near base of seg (filament on ext. seg 17 mm long from pt. of attachment, those on int seg 8 mm long). Anthers whitish, 4 mm long, basifixed, introrse, those on longer filaments appearing at (a just above) the level where the per parts cease to form a tube. Ovary inferior, 3 celled, with 2 rows of void rules on each cell (in angles when they join in center of ovary) [diagram] This center point exude orange coloured juice (at least shows orange color) when ovary is cut. Style one, linear