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with tiny deflexed style. Capsule and persistent
sepal show red dotted (20x). Capsule globose, 4-
mm diam, one-celled, 3-valved with several
traces on placenta from middle to each valve.
Only 2 seeds ripened. Seed yellowish, very small
ovaling, with a large (1/2 as large as rest of seed)
white fleshy appendage (very like the appendages
[among] [the] lugula) at one end decurrent down the
side. Seed 4 mm long overall.
895
8-4-34 Viola
Roadside
Cleistogamous flovs unisexual near steps at 1st house
beyond Cafe des Narcisses. Proflameae #894 & 1 1/2 in
high bearing tuft of small apex and (or may abut a pair
or several) below. Flovs (exactly as in #894) in the axils
of these two.
8-4-34 Equisetum arvense L. Colt III 712; Bsn 385; BVH
571; A52; SV/I 15. Sterile etc. Wet spots on glims -> Les Avants,
Rd. Brandes have scattered secondary branches,
occasionally 2 (but usually only one) at a node
(and not nearly at all the nodes). Hence plant has
not at all the effect of E. silvaticum with its
secondary branches verticillate. See A52 and
BVH 571.
[other fern]
896 [un]probatly a young plant [of] Aspidium dilatatum or zone,
8-4-34??? Cyatophyllum montana Benth Colt III 679; Bsn 379;
z C.—Les Avants BVH 590: C.—Dees. SV/I 4. Scapae. Rd Les Narcisses
-> Les Avants before reaching Vermont Junction.
Scapes made [illegible] on shape [illegible] only. Flovs [illegible] are not
flowing rings.