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6/6-34? Alyssum campestre L. Costa I/III, Bord 28,
50/II 142. Fr. Bower et Plage region. Plants
quite dead & ripe. Plant very slender (no branches)
to ± 5 cm high from very slender annual root
(effect very like Draba verna). No leaves remaining.
Stv pedicels covered with appressed starry hairs.
Fr. very like all Costa. Pds circular ± 3 mm or
somewhat narrower, not notched at apex;
covered with fine starry pubescence (but hairs
could not be called "etale's tuberculeux" Costa).
Style (or what remains) ± 6/10 mm. Seeds 1 in each
cell (or in one cell abortive) about 1.7 x 1.1 mm, narrowly
but definitely wing margined. This seems only
pos. in Costa and 50/II. Fr deliquescent.
[2-7-18-34 Fr. Le Cranette Camp. One dead plant found.
No main upright at but 8 branches (all decumbent at base)
arising from top of tap root. Plant 6 in high, with
fruiting part to below middle. Some of the 8 principal
branches are branched at about middle. Silicules
4mm diam., very slightly notched at apex (20x). Style,
pubescence as 6/6-34. Seeds 2+ mm x 3-mm.]