Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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Tube is an elong projection into lobe with a ring hairs [illegible] on scales at their bases. Margins very little if at all revolute. 5-15-29 Coreopsis tinctoria, Nutt. Fl. p. 406 B.M.C.P. 472. Harding Little French Disp. Outer ovate 2 mm long, & same (10.2) Then a short distance below the others on carpels. Inner bracts 3 long to 8 mm long, united at base, reflexed at antices, all bracts brownish. Rays 8, 1/4 in long 3 lobed at apex, deep maroon above with tube yellow, the yellow scales below; Disk flo[s], earsier maron-brown. Receptacle scales narrowly linear, only little shorter than flo, hyaline with 2 red nms, close together & maroon at apex. Achenes Hattled, glabrous, pappus more. No sign of style in ray flo but their achenes seem to be developing [illegible] pf divided into filipal div. 5-15-29 Lavatera trimestris, L. p. 340 B.M.C.P. 485 The White fld form. Wattsville (Mrs. Trimmingham) Fl 2 1/2 inches. Styles evidently as many as carpels. ? 5-15-29 Bauhinia variegata, L. B.M.C.P. 423 Fl (not collected) from Wattsville. White, the upper 2 petals veined green 2 1/2 x 3 in. Stamens 5 all fertile. This agrees with disc. 4-11-29 Southlands. (Note scales on calyx white before turning brown.) Calyx reddish. Only signs of staminal [illegible] filiform 3/6 in v. 24 mere protuberances. This is first tree which flowered after 2-11-27.