Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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3-8-27 Clerodendron diacana, Kent. p 318: Rode side east of Agui. Way. Calyx 3 in long red spotted with green, white, split down middle as double corolla, small, opaque. Stamens & style not easily studied. Undivided fls. Filigree has no odor. "Ginger weed" Fls. resemble sweet willow-attaches to ants. 3-8-27 Ranunculus parviflorus, L. p 139 Prob near Spittal Pond. Very softly hairy. Petals shorter than sepals & remnants of stamens absent. Lance fls to 1/2 in wide. Like 3-7-27 near Hudson's wharf 3-8-27 Veronica _________? (see 2-3-27) St Mark's Child. This seems to be same from Helbert made 2-3-27. No low many after got off, all materially pedicelled, the involucres 1/2 length of flodet. ? 3-7-27 Veronica arvensis?, even a wall Spadwell p 349. Near Hudson's wharf. Upon road at all short pet, in double but calycole like above ? 3-8-27 Cerastium vulgatum? p 129 (See 3-8-27) near Hudson's wharf. this pedicels are not materially inferior to sepals but petals are as long as longer than sepals. Calycole lobes so slightly inferiors 3-8-27 Heliotropium curassavicum, L p 307 Sea-side Helotrope & Spittal Pond on S side. In bed only but first this. Low slighly of lanceolate alls all 4 to 5 in wide. 4-12-27 Ferry Rd walls & ditch an fl. 3-9-27 Stelitzia regina, Banks p 89 studied fl from S V garden. 4 stamens enclosed in head in "pencil chest". Calyx 3 range sepals, 2 above the lower slightly different. Corolla, petiolate petals about rate, 2 antleris petals jointed making lips 2 as long as sepals. Be groove down dent 1 this holds a stamens & style. Style in perfect 7/8 in length. Fls. Stamens 5-ribbed, anthers all 3/4 in masses following gramas open hill slightly together by wholly peters.