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25_28 Barstow 2100 feet [June 4, 1912] No. 4774. Larrea divaricata Cov. Petals 5 yellow, twisted half round, so as to be turbine-windmill fashion. Stamens 10, each with a large laciniate-toothed scale at base, the filament attached to base of scale outside. Leaves boiled to make a lotion for drawing sores on stock. Branches ringed with a black glandular ring at nodes!! No. 4775. Cassia armata Wats. Petals 5, roundish, equal, three above, two below but really regular in position, the middle upper one resure fertile stamens 7, with upcurved upwardly attenate anthers, the style upcurved; many whitish pubescent; three sterile stamens, short filaments on upper side. |
25_29 [Barstow 2100 feet] June 4, 1912 Corolla bright salmon color. Bush 2 to 4 feet high, with numerous flowering racemes arising from much-branched stems, forming a low broad bush (twice as broad as high, quite glorious, all yellow spot on the desert gray) the old stems bending over eventually as new ones take their place in center the old dead stems forming a cheveaux-de-frise about base. Stems of the season thickish, greenish, almost destitute of leaves, the leaves with thickened rachis and reduced leaflets. Sepals elliptic, distinct as essentially so, about concolorous with petals. |
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