Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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4-15-29 Panicum palmifolium, Fri Across at Agri Stat along ridge east of Rubber Tree. Labeled "Lindopogon celonsmithii = Lemm grass" but has no progenesis of pan. pan. not that. Sheathes overlapping, flattened, hairy enough to touch below. Open ligule? 1/8 hairs of blade long hairs on edges just above ligule. Blades to 33 in long 1/4 in wide, acute at apex, narrowing forward base so as to be no more than a margin to midrif. Mid. rif prominent on underside. Seeds are ribs many 20 or more, alternately dlong on upper & lower side so that it's very dry plicate. Blade glabrous both sides, long on margin. One plant with stiff culm from which inf was broken stood 5 ft. Plant in a large clump with general effect palm like. 5-6-29 Mayflower no flore. 4-23-29 "Elium plantagineum" L Mr. Lynch. Pomander State. Also but not studied. BMJ.C.P.626. Plant 2/2-3 ft, branched from about 6 in above base. hairs on lf not appressed, somewhat curving. Fils open pink & turn blue making general effect purple. Another plant has white fls. 4-23-29 "Lepatozyne maritima" by Mrs Hastings Pomander State BMJ.C.P.167. About 8 inches, yellow rays 8. Blade gray 1/2 in to leaf by 3/ 3/16 1/4 in wide. Lvs of bracts 2 blade. 7 spreading green ons, linear 1/2 in long. serrated rate, acute yellowish ones! Ring on corolla tube not hairy but more less papillose, not very