Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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Pelargonium capitatum Nier. 4-11-27 St David's. 4-15-27 Near West End of Tamlas. Upper petals marked under petal. 4-15-26 Salvia purpurea. Miss Hunter's garden. Stem, lacks 3rd leaf. Calyx distinctly white work. Petals pinkish. Stem above. Calyx many nerves. Upper lip entire lower 3 cleft always on that long. Corolla purple black about 1/2 an inch and garter connecting orange & cream adequate. Stem not sq. 4-15-26 Salvia Pulex alius, fl blue with lighter spot on lips. Floam white. If long, narrow 7 veins like plantain 14 curl downward. Both nearly entire. Plant 2 1/2 ft high. 4-13-27 Morotignia meana Button waste near Bailys Bay single white. Dominant white flowers this may be large. 4-15-27 Distigocordum gigantea, Kent's Large tale larkspur. Dried and labeled 6/70 Filaments flattened, style seems ok but no evidence of "jointed near the base" Flo staminal white with purple stripe down back. Sepal hollow 4-15-27 Myrius communis. Myrtle 3263 Stk. purp garden See S/M/D #22 Petals seem more than 5/8 Tings square slightly pubescut many scelled, or less many 4-15-27 Cerbera Thevetia. L. Lucas Died 1924 St & Pk. Cutters as the aureole of 300 projections into tube & corolla. Connection far longer into petal's pollen sac than I can't smell it made with wood hairs just above anthers long glandula