Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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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.]