Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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small leaf-like bracts below fls Fls clear blue 2in wide, like forgets in shape, the seals in throat blue. Pedicel 1/2 in. Calyx lobes pubescent, ciliate, acute, rather slant tipped. Corolla lobes imbricate nutlets attached by base the seam not reaching to outer edge, the nut valves one or these spec 2 mm long, 1/2 mm wide v'not as large, very smooth with relatively long (5mm) processes up to 5 mm. Nutlet purplish at base but light green or top. Not in BMCP. See 4-17-29 "C. furcatum" Egli EX. x 4-6-29 Nymphoaea BMCP. Flmsy or 1/3 in peduncle from Garden Club. Calyx flmsy 4 in acro. Petals light blue to 2 1/4 x 1/2 in. Stamens 12. Filament a yellow blade, narrowing for connecting blue or blue in back v'prolonged into blue tip match- ing petal. Carpels 17 free at least or folded as to fleshy, yellow mscured hook on outer upper edge. Styles numerous, attached to valve. Petals elliptic or long, slant acute, white at very base. Sepals 2 1/2 x 1 in, blue purple within v'purple or edges without. Pelago Castalia gangibarensis.Butt. p.130. '72 N. capensis var gangibarensis casp BMCP. 270. See 4-25-29 4-7-29 Viola odorata L. p 349 Flmsy from Mrs Delmead. 4-7-29 Linum grandiflorum, Def p193. Flmsy from Mrs Delmead. Filaments pubescent with a short capillary staminode at each sinus of standard tube. Fl articulated