Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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up to 3 cm where suff. begins St., lvs on both surfaces, v.calyx covered with very short glandular hairs # Flo &! Petals 2-2½ mm wide (calyxlbers less than 1½ mm wide; petals 3¾ mm long (Calyx lobes 2-2¼ mm long) Filaments as in ill (Cata). Nerve of lvs visible when held against light v visible as vwd depressed line on upperside of lvs (when not against light) Not at all sure this is same plantas 9-5-34. # 1173 & 1174 seem only possiSVT. 7-17-34 Ranunculus glacialis L. Cote I 24; Bon 7, SVT 366 Fl. from Engadine immuttable but petals ?. (Cote says always 5). Petals white [7-31-34 Fl. Engadine Petals dark rose] 7-18-34 ? Lactuca sativa L. Cote II 432; Bon 187, BMJCP 756; SVT 727 Flv unripe fr. Villeneuve dcmp. Stlebras lvs undivided, rather weakly spiny toothed at tip of the br (except upper-mst) more than twice as long as internodes. Lower lvs @lerping with lobes a little clear but uppers v the small beet-like lobes or broad dearp with very rounded auricles which often are the largest part of leaf as in Bon III # 235. But wth. not as in #235 but makes a somewhat caudlebra effect the branches rather closely covered with lvs & fl. Some flower lvs seem to have tendency not to stand in horizontal plane