Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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"The 3 outside sepals purple or lavender with greenish mid- ribs; the wings purple or lavender with darker veining, petal like. The 2 upper petals free on upper edges the lower edges attached at base to a staminal tube. v to the third (i.e lower) petal. Flushed pale lavender or purple. Third petal smaller, green- ish with a crest of 2 purple lobes v2 hooding greenish lobes. Stamens 8, filaments united at base into a tube which is a split on upper edge, the part of filament which is free being very slender. Anthers erect, one- celled opening at top by a pore. Upper part of style cup shaped with a blunt posterior lobe bent at angle and an anterior lobe not bent derminating in a short stalked woolly capitate organ probably the stigma. Or possibly this cup should be considered 4 lobed with 2 low obscure lobes between these just described. In f the anthers lie over the cup of style enveloping the woolly capitate organ. Petals, stamens v style fall, leaving calyx with the superior 2 celled maturing ovary seed 1 in each cell, black, hairy pendulous, with white aril at seed 2 1/2 mm long overall Aril attached to seed at upper end, extending as 2 free lobes about 1/3 its length. A line extends from up part to lower ends of seed v at lower end is a tiny white spine like. Sperm pressed Rostigianus 4-25-28 "Mammea Apple" by Mrs Turgot Harrington House Tree No. 1 Fr. Lot had very like Capsella Could this have been Caloceras humshan- morrum, Pierre p 285. See P.Mf. P. 589