Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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bractlets subtending calyx v because the small petals are not "reddish" but a light of grey yellow. Damara 4, capsule ovary 14-celled with red outsp. Cluery 5mm long filling all of calyx tube. The most advanced spce has young capsule 6mm long (3 lines) while calyx lobes are #mmn long. Petals 3mm long found in all flowers studied #146 & H. 5-13-29 Rynchospora stiptata, Chapman p 53. Fl. Devonshire Marsh. (Certainly not R. distans because it is not at all fertile) faint Action shows signs of becoming winds. Like the conic tubercle is faintly hairy Less 1/4 in wide. Most valves adhere 1 1/2 mm (3/4 line) long. Scales chestnut brown 5-13-29 Eleocharis interstincta, RVSp p 50. Fl. Devonshire Marsh. Fl. Culms usually about 1ft high. Culms smooth volving not papillary. (See 4-1-29) X 5-13-29 Eriogonum annuus, Purp p 392. Fl Roadside on Middle Rd Devonshire at the 2 branches west of church. Beasts with long white hairs that are evident to eye in bud. 5/13-29 Xyloloma breifolia L p 47 Flowering fl. Devonshire Marsh. 5-13-29 Complexicarpa pljus-carpaea F. Meppz p 297 Same place as 2-10-29. It's an inflated pod containing a nucleus narrower than inside attached by a thin membrane which extends to length.