Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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7-17-34 Leaves usually with 5 lobes (sometimes 3 or 7) Short sterile short stamens effect at base. Highest flower is 1 cm from base. Capsules with flat sides up. Style pedicels minutely pubescent with many hairs handedled (20x). Sepals turn yellow before falling. Petals 3 1/2 mm wide. In the ovary spawned only 1 seed in each cell developing but also one undeveloped ovules in each cell. 7-17-34 Daphne atride Tratt Cote II 219; Bon 295; SVI 462 FL. from Engadine. Reacts so delicate that only one remained to prove their existence. Pillen orange colour. 7-17-34 Gentiana Kochiana Perr V 5, Cote II 563; SVI 529 FL. from Engadine. No basal hrent vot as cell. on 1 cm. Calyx tube 10 mm, lobes 4-5 mm. Calyx lobes as if (Cala) somewhat spreading The sinuses broad, cut square across mit weisser Verbindungslaut " welche makes a sort of ridge across base of lobe Corolla 5 cm high with def. green coloring at throat (Note that -A. alpina in August. if this are not given for Eng. in SVI.) #887 7-17-34? Saxifraga exarata Vill Cote II 142; Bon 116, Set I 334 FL. from the Engadine. Plant collected with only a few dried root base (so cannot see how densely cupids it maybe) but bears unmistakable short sterile shoots from base. Plant 6 cm overall. St curving, leaves.