Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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Plants of 8 in. high were flowering 5-13-29 Syphlterisma sanguinalis, De p.19 Devonshire Marsh. no east end & rachis spicels touched edges. 5-13-29 Caprifa-Dactylon, Kuntze p.36 Devonshire Marsh. no east end. Ligule short, deeply fringed with long hairs (noticeable veins) just about at base of ff. on front edges & collar. # 149 G.H. 5-13-29 Polygon Devonshire Marsh. Outer scales 2mm long with awns of same length (which suggests P. littoralis), the 2nd scale is "much shorter, crass-truncate, lopheline, bearing a delicate awn inserted below apex" Die P. monopelienisis deae will. But are also ill for P. littoralis sharing awns. X 5-13-29 Verbena alba, L p 399 F=LV 20p.3 young fr. Achenes dark with white edges, tuberculate. 5-13-29 Brania Monniera, Drake p 348 Devonshire Marsh. Corolla almost white. Stamens blue. Stamens 4, with position & staminode indicate. Ovary single. Calyx seg unequal: 1 broadly ovate, 2 very narrow, the other 2 intermediate. Stigma obscurely 2-lobed. Corolla nearly regular campanulate with lobes spreading. 5-13-29 Senardia repens, p.267 Fl. Devonshire Marsh. This because bliner