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3-30-29 Heliotropium curassavicum L. Fly fs. Wreck Hill where old abists mangrove at beginning of isthmos.
p 307 This also grows on side & 1st to east of B.V. Cordia has not yellow eye. Each leaf main st. has small branches or bud branches in axil.
3-30-29 Boussingaultia helleoides, H.B.K. p.114 x B.M. 8.C.P.361 Wreck Hill. Picnic Point. 50 off fr. No tubercle in axels of lvs.
3-30-29 X No flor fr with Heliotropium curassavicum above. Young plants evidently paras. Annual to 5in high. Sts lvs very silvery scruffy. Thickly covered (2x) with white, hard glassy globules like incrustation of sand or sugar. Lvs alt. entire. Lower ones oblate.
Node 1/8 x 3/4 in round at apex narrowed to 1/4 in petiole. Upper lvs oval about same size but petiole 1/2in. St. loses pinnate leaf through the surf. Prob. Chenopodiaceae but not in B.F.F.B. p.114.
3-30-29 Salicornia perennialis, Mill Wt of fs. Wreck Hill Picnic Pt. and seaward under the mangrove scrubland. Consists of trailing & v ascending upright sp. branches with joints 1/8in long 1/4 in wide with 2 oppos. low obtuse points at upper end. Upper edge transparent forming a cup in which lower end of next joint sits. No separate scales representing lvs. 2 tips buds often found at joint of junction of joints.