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"1 mm long x nearly as broad, both tuberculate [illegible] but distinctly different. 4-5-29 Erythrina. Fl. Tree so. side of So. Rd. op p Cotonwold Robson tree. Fl to 2\frac{1}{2} in long Calyx \frac{1}{2} in long very dark red brown, shinin g the with scattered very short appressed hairs. Calyx and splitting the position of [illegible] dent, the 2 posterior ones very obscure, the lateral ones somewhat more evident a real growth and the anterior one standard a darker red than 4-3-29 and with straighter line on back \frac{1}{7} not most \frac{1}{8} in wide folded down back (hence narrower than 4-3-29). Wings \frac{5}{6} in long white, feel a trifle shorter. Stamens unequal but not [illegible] lengths (not as 4-3-29). Ovary style puberulent. Kel cor. sists of 2 distinct parts not at all united, falling from when the \frac{1}{4} calyx standard are removed similar to the wings in shape ve trifle smaller i.e. \frac{7}{8} in long. Style redish, hairy on line along upper edge otherwise almost glabrous. Stigma terminal on the tip of style which is bent slightly upward & flattened. Tree dried. Racis v pedicel slightly puberulent Pedicel \frac{3}{8} in dis joined with the fl. w with the racils, the fl falling easily from the pedicel & the pedicel from the racils. 2 fin B HGC P this is pres F. Coralb deduced p 410 but consider E. velutina willd BFF p 188 & others Comp with 3-25-27 v with the gip Wrs. Thernine Valley Way. Stamens monodelphious. Receptacle remaining at base & style when stamens are removed to 3 mm length with glauds (p8610) em-
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square, puberulent. Peduncle beads at top 2 linear bracts 3 mm long at this stage is as long as bud. 5 calyx lobes ciliate. Petals & counting some rudimentary ones, more less ciliate, show stldts plainly. Very 4-celled (mostly 3-celled) 5-10-29 Fl. Smallh X Labeled "Desinilla japonica" 4-11-29 (See 4-15-29 Age St.) Shrub Southlands Fr on which what seems to be corolla is persistent. Twigs slender reddish brown puberulent. Tips in of pp fascicles (perianxillo) fallen. 3/4" x frag, obovate or irregularly crenate- serrate the numerous tips of each tooth in pressed closed to the fruit looths v not evident to the tree Apex blunt but mucronate, bases narrowed or rounded. If dark green above lightlt below reticulated veins depressed above. If shining even in early stages. Petiole less than 1/4 in. Fr in short panicles 3/4-1in per fascill- ary. Peduncle & pedicels puberulent. Peduncle bracted at base, bearing successively opp short branches (1mm) which from their bracted tip bear 1-3 fr [This consists] of calyx tube 1/2 mm x 4 lobes (1 opp pair larger than others) less than 1mm. This may be false calyx tube & sessile flower or pedicel if the 4 lobes is the inside of the calyx] seated in the center of these 4 lobes and easily detachable is what looks like a selfed, spm "achene" 4mm. long bearing at top apex x 4 or usually 5 spreading ob lanceolate slimbs 6-7 mm long. This "achene" is showing a 2-celled ovary bearing ovules on the division wall. Cannot tell whether these bodies are really fr or within v dried tips. Nor.
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cannot tell whether these blades at top of ovary are lobes of corolla the ovary being in the corollate place superior to calyx or whether corolla has vanished entirely & there blades are appendages of some sort to the fil. No signa & stamina. 4-11-29 Salvinia (Merriana, Klotzsch Southlands Aquatic floating plant florets for 1/2 or approx palmate sessile, orbicular, 1/7 median entire, lobate at base concave upward. The upper side densely covered with erect processes 2mm high sometimes a sample of 2-4 parted (mostly 4-parted) has beneath lying with hair-like rootlets or approaching glochides. See p.648 also B.M.C.P.173. Certain bud-like bodies on what looks like 1/5-1/4 in clusters of roots may be sporocarpus buds of sporo-caps but no sporangia distinguished at 20x or 50x. 4-11-29 Limilara Rona-mox, L p.74. Southlands & FL. Vine of scarcely with sharp thorns. Leaves to 3 1/4 long x 2 in wide (three on branches) hastate the middle lobe 1 1/2 in long blunt but with sharp apiculates tips, stamens rounded obfuse, lateral lobes rounded base truncate, margins all beeft with sharp but not stiff spines esp. on lateral lobes. Young shoots bronze flecked with minute dots & green so that the glochides at roots burst to the eye. Petioles about 1/2 in thick sharply recurved at top of sheath where tendrils are borne, then curving inward again. Peduncles flattened or long or droop. 2 of heads 3/4 in across. Pod-sheaths 1/2 in long & 5/8 wide & flat base. Every seems only 1-celled with 2 ovules or perhaps sometimes only 1 ovule.) Stigma fleshy & curly. 5-9-29 Young shoots from roots have stellate pubescence (scattered) to about 2" from base. Stars spherical & many pointed see S.C.H.174.
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4-15-29 Maniifera indica, L. p 221 FL Agri Stat (labeled 4-19-27) if correct remembered value early in 1929 but 4-15-29 labeled Avocado Pear Persea americana -in Horse lot East of Bull Pen. Some petals turn pinkish on fading blade a few hours on uppy side. Stamen 1, style lateral not all like Persea. 4-15-29 "Myrciaria cauliflora = jaboticaba" labeled Agri Stat in Horse lot east of Bull Pen. This is free studied 3-18-29 in fr then bro. And seems as to if same as 4-10-29 labeled "West Indian Plum" at Par- la-Ville except that this (Agri Stat) has mothorns, Fr, no flo. Myrciaria cauliflora = jaboticaba not found in B. F. J.3 or 3 M.J.C.P Burker LeMvD p 263. This as far as can be determined without flo. seems to be Flacourtiia Pamontelii, L'Her p 248 = F.indica, Nier B.M.J.C.P. 509. Fr has a red lobed ridge around fat of attachment to ped- ice (for the dia) 3 M.J.C.P. v bears twice as deepy only 3 lobes - in one case 4, very small laminar inside, not esp. ciliate. This fr has 6 styles at apex, 2 stamens united at base. The very flat seeds less than 1/4 in long wide stand vertically in pulpy fr. They are arranged to improach a circle, @ or @ 2 in each plane one above the other. Young twig (not as young as 4-10-29) minute puberulent and with conspicuous white lenticels. (see 5-4-29) 4-15-29 "Carrin Fistula" L p 172, 3 M.J.C.P 4-23 labeled Agri Stat Horse lot east of Bull Pen is no Horse neargate. PN this V 1/4 fruits Racelus 16 in long nuts 6x 4 pair lfto opp alveolus 20.
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This is not C - pellocarpous if it as acc to B.T.J.B. This differs accce since calyx is not deciduous, style not simple, red not suspended. Duff. Terminal raceme 2 1/4 in., lower pedicels 1/2 in., upper ones much shorter & almost sessile. Peduncle & pedicels brittle, brown pubescent. Pedicel bracted at base with 1 to 3 bracts above according to length. Bracts deciduous (easily) lanceolate, acuminate, brown, with long brown hairs down center inside, and wooly brown ciliate to - wards base the hairs twisted (84x) so they look varying diameter. Bracts 6-7 mm. In it. no definite div bet pedicel & hyppathem or calyx tube. Calyx reddish more or less brown wooly on edge ereect then when they fall. lobes 5 acute, 4-5 mm long. The calyx is the lobes about 2 mm. Tube deciduous with anther & all together stamens. Petals 5 white or with traces of pink, obovate, 7mm x 7-8 mm at the very blunt apex, brown reclined when they fall. Calyx X Stamens 17-20 attached to calyx tube & deciduous with it. Filamentum- equal, red when they fall but white at anthesis. Style 9mm, 2 parted to within 2 mm, calcant to base, stigmas capitate projects as far as stamens. Ovary in closed hyppathem 2-celled ovules 2 in each cell, ovary cavity when ovules removed only a little wider than hyppathem walls. Style persistent when the other parts fall but in ripe fr. is repre- sented only by its base. Fr. 1/4 in diam, globose with flattened apex bearing remnant of style. Dark colored. Walls thin, seed 1 ascending with seed divides vertically down middle into 2 lobes & per.
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4-15-29 Cosmos sulphureus, Car- p. 408 U.S.M.J.C.P. 769 Fd. Agri Station beds of dwelling. Plant to 2ft high flo 2 in across. St peduncle spand, lirsute. Pistil thus same as 3-18-29 outside Walford but larger because cult. Diff as follows: If 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. pet 1 1/2 in. Fl 2 in wide, outside bracts not ciliate (20x). Petals not hairy or veins (20x). Disk flo to 10mm yellow, lighter at base but the 3mm triangular lobes not orange until withering. These lobes hairy on inside around edge (this hair not noticed 3-18-29). Anthers to 3 mm as 3-18-29. Filaments hairy as 3-18-29. Pollen as 3-18-29. Oviscence (unflattened, more ripe) like 3-18-29. 5-13-29 bloom as side of 22 Berry Hill rd slightly after it turns W. Middle Rd. Dennell Dr called "Cosmos" by lady on porch. X "Schizanthus hybrids" labeled 4-17-29 Schizanthus pinnatus, Ruiz & Pav. B.M.J.C.P. 668. Agri. Ex. labeled "S. hybrida." Filaments conspicuous at base the staminode but the 2 fertile stamina in center or slightly encave lobes under lip. Underside of the seeds would be rugose. Corolla tube is short shorter than calyx, 5 stamina are exerted is almost as long as middle lobe of lower lip as disc. Noticed that middle lobe of lower lip is [illegible] noticed the length of upper lip and the lateral lobes are longer, 5 falcate, curving inward so as to look like one petal with hole in center. Upper lip variously lobed v left either 3 lobed the middle one slightly notched the thus more or less deeply cleft or 3 lobed the upper and again 3 lobed the 2 lower deeply cleft. Opposite, but others cut as to color.
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3-lobed Pz. salmon red, lighter colored toward base not stippled down H. vitatum. 4-17-29 "Asterias Bermuda native" labeled Mrs. Dec [illegible] G. andavensis B.M.Q.P. 197. Mr. F.W. Fox says A. revert to this form in Bermuda, Agri. Ex. This frequently observed at Mrs. Simples, Miss Woods, Valenciera, Miss Wood thinks divergence takes place without means aided. 4-17-29 "Lainum grandiflorum" Def. labeled Agri. Ex. dark red spots at base of each red petal makes definite circle in center. I.H. B.M.Q.P. #40 upper lvs in infl definitely elbte as those ones are not. 4-17-29 "Trachymene" labeled Agri Ex. = T. caerulea, P. Melane B.M.Q.P. 562 [illegible] (Head of stud). Lvs suggest oregeranium in general shape. St. lvs involute, peltate, pedicels, peduncles v.f. (at early stage) gland - pubescent. Fl. are brown in early stages, flattened radially with fl. head v very effective. 4-17-29 "Verbena eriocoida" labeled Agri Stud Ex. Fl. about stud. Tall slender. Lvs on st. sessile, deeply H- pinnatifid into narrowly linear seg. (suggests cramoi) gardens F-I. elongating spikes the part in fl. globular. Purple with white at throat. Stamens just visible in throat. Corolla tube almost straight. From inner part of fl st. 1/2"in apart. See B.M.Q.P. C78 cat V. Veronae v V. eriocoides. Lams. T3/F=J.B. 311 4-17-29 Verbena bona - fensis p.311 in wild fl collections [illegible]. 4-17-29 V. rigida Spring p.311 in wild fl collection v. otherwise [illegible] stated. 4-23-29 Woodley "Verbena venosa" by Miss Wood.
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"Helichrysum tracteatum" 4-17-29 Andr. labeled BMJCP186 [illegible] Agri FX Beads red, orange, pinkish. Petals Definitely bifurc. Receptacle naked. Anther top thin, stalked at base. Stamen has some long silky white hairs as well as being minutely scabrous or roughened with minute hairs. X 4-17-29 "Cynoglossum fuscation" labeled Fl Agri FX [illegible]. Racemes not bractid is just in axils of the lvs which are on or st. among the racemes Calyx lobes spreading so that young seeds are early visible. Fl lovely clear blue. Lvs soft to touch (see both) X 4-17-29 "Anchusa Capensis" labeled Fl Agri FX [illegible]. Racemes not always in axils of lvs. Calyx lobes closed & swelling around young fr. Fl dark blue with white stamen Lvs rough to touch. But subs noted a fl red margined as desc BMJCP623 see if this is A. Officinalis L or pars 2 myosotidiflora (see later) Not this because flowers on short pedicels X 4-17-29 "Adezia grandiflora" Lindl labeled Fl Agri FX [illegible]. Fl 3 in diam. Petals mostly bright rose but sides & base almost white, the colors flecked together in broken lines. BMJCP552 see later. X Perhaps C. elegans Doug. BMJCP549 "Clarkea" labeled Fl Agri FX. [illegible] See BMJCP 549. Petals long clawed blade type wide reddish glaucescens, Fls various not glaucescens. Lvs remotely dentate. Fl rose colored. Anthers & long stamens bright crimson & about as broad with fl. X 4-17-29 "Vernithera Kiennis" labeled Fl Agri FX [illegible]. Cannot be this because flowers white. Could this be le speciosa BMJCP5514 BFJB 267 or pars de desrupta ? Prob. le speciosa Nutt.
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p 226 B.M.J.C.P. 469. 4-15-29 Sapindus saponaria, L. Tree at so-east corner of N.E. Hospital drive grounds at corner permanent village st. An large tree. Its seems alt, compounded with 6 lfts but as one looks at tree it seems simple lft's fr. collected from ground. 1 lft to 7x3/4 in on petioles 1/2 in long, 1 lft. oral somewhat inequilaterial acute base rounded inequi. Thin but firm, entire. Above slightly puberulent but dry roughish to touch (fallen & drying frs only studied) from the finely netted veins, beneath only the midrib & lateral veins apparent to touch but down puberulent to downy to touch. Frs on pedicels (infl. pds compoud) racios & pedicels puberulent. Branceles grift subtended by a small bract which remains on raclios under seas not easily detached & looking like small par. substance fr raclios Raclos as collects 7 in long with three seas v bracts about 1/2 in apart at very base & closer together at tips. Frs borne on what seems a slent branch 1/4 in & this raclio's pedicels 1/4 in. Frs fleshy, 3-lobed (but no 2 lobes) not developed the largest 3/4 in long by almost 1 in wide. Frs yellowish brown covered with yellow hairs which readily rub off & seeds (Fr wrinkled at this stage.) Superior to calyx. Seed black, rather pear shaped to 3 pin. Pulp of fr has sticky juice, adhesive in drying, decidedly saponifying (Raclios bands in good tho thin latter which is very cleansing). One seed was 1/2 in diam almost hemispherical attached by a broad sear axle. Some frs seed rattled as tho' in pod,
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"Lavatera trimestris" see earlier. St. hirsute as are pet. x ped. Lo to 4 in acros to apex, pubescent both sides crenate (laths rounded). Fl 2 in numde. petals rose pearly finely striped with white, dark rose or clay- cloth suff white bars on each side of claw. (Claws not long narrow as desc L. assurgens flora. Kellogg.) Pubescence montside of involucle & calyx stary. Pubescence on pet. underside of lob obscurely starry in part otherwise sample! Staminial filaments bends into starness from middle upward. Petals show no signs of being re- fled after anthesis" 5-12-29 Ft. Jay College! 4-17-29 Dimorphotheca aurantiaca D.C. BMG C.P. 780 Egri Ex. St+613 in ex. St slightly pubescent above slender, 1 in or trifurcate, serrate, lo 2 x 3/8 in, glossous, low toothed lobz. Needs solitary or terminal ped. 2 in acros, the disk compasitively small. Rays a soft orange, slightly purplish on claw papilae with red like hairs on claws at base with dark tips to base of blade, &. Blade florage strong of lips anthers purple making center dark except for bright orange pollen narrowly lanceolate. Invol bracts about 1 series, inside edges scarious margined, glandula with purplish dots. Petal lobes 3-sided unmarkedly corrugated in large notches, disks abiences flat with margel border. Disks flo hairy at base on tube like hairs on rays. x Perhaps its only that div. of cells show very plainly. 4-17-29 Solvis Selarea L. BMG C.P. 639. Cagri Ex. "Clary (Purple tipped)" in one strength of BMG C.P. I might think this S. Horminum, only upper 1/8 in
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"studied on this lvs seem more "long to rate" than "broadly olate" very slightly cordate at cuneui base hookary, [illegible] crenulate, rugose, blunt at apex. lower flvs very broad, app abruptly decuminate or abruptly acute, the upper flvs suberending more fle bright purple vein, larger than if lvs near & below acute not acuminate v not abruptly so. Calyx tube 7/16 in x 3/8 in when flattened doubles hardly "broadly campanulate" the lower lip 2 cleft (the lobes decum- mate, the upper lip 4 toothed having a notch in the middle and 2 lateral sharp teeth into which veins are prolonged. Calyx 13-ribbed the upper lip 7-ribbed: 1 along back, 2 lateral that don't reach to margin 2 lateral terminating in teeth. 2 "reaching margin just" above series. These last 2 and the 6 ribs of lower lip once more make lower part of calyx look more ribby than the upper. Corolla tube broadly exerted and twisted from calyx upper lip, purple with dark spots, hairy veins white globular glands like glands on calyx and upper part of flatus (Calyx v green if lvs have some hairs glandular as well). Corolla tube gets narrow at throat below, lower lip whitish, the large concave middle like hair v glandular at base beneath, the lateral lobes narrow. The dilated anterior portion of connectives above above throat as two purple lobes. The four teeth of calyx sharp pointed but not really spiny tipped. Style exerts beyond upper lip of corolla continuing to curve. Stamens not exserted as they are included in upper lip.