Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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7-18-27 L'innun usitatissimum, L Flax Parnters Hill . Sepals scarious margined - inner ones more deeply somewhat ciliate 1-19-27 Lepilium canadense, Button Horseweed p 394 1-19-27 Lepilium pusillum, Button Smooth Horseweed p 895- Dec 1-26-27. See from Sci to /6 intell. 1-18-27 Fr. I palm in Mrs James garden of Durgess (seedlings were coming up thickly beneath). Date colored, dark shaped leaves. Trees very regularly pruned at height easily reached. This is very likely Lavingstonia Chuniness, R.B.E. London Palm p 57 as seen in Agri. Station. Then layer I pulp marked seed smy smooth, light colored, filled with hard white material with brown spongy mass on one side and directly opposite white, like covered in a calcarate white, spirent-like body. 3-8-27 St Marks Chapel, Jamaica. 5 O'clock 1-26-27 shrut back & B.V. almost leafless. Fl. no white blabias and milky juice. I to 1/2 po. abt. 4 inch long bright green entire leaf slightly serrulate. Vessel the from apex indented but rather bluntly obovate and rounded at end & fissure later. Calyx 5 lobed, lobes about 3 in. Corolla double. Tube yellow & 1/2 in. Lamb filled white, lobes obovate Very fragrant. No organs found but 5 stamens undeveloped (pollen po decause spec picked inside wrapped in green one in center) & The there were perhaps parts of the double Corolla. Film included. Rex Tabernemontana coronaria, Wild Crap Jasmine p 294 Mr. Lesieur diagnosed it as A. K. or calling this gardenia zone p 376 Dec 5-16-29