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Ram-allah, Palestine
Apr. 2, 1926
A. Willard Jones Ramallah, Palestine Friends Boys School
D. F. Higgins camee in from Ramallah, where he has been surveying Tell-en-Nasbeh for W. F. Bade, and I went out to Ramallah from Jerusalem with him and stayed all night at the Friends Boy's School, where Mr. and Mrs. Jones are charming hosts and I enjoyed the stop there very much. A young Arab woman, a teacher in the school, donned a bride's cos- tume, the distinctive embroid- ered dress of the Ramallah women and an embroidered head-[chess] which had (cont. p. 28[?]
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Tell-en-Nasbeh, Apr. 3, 1926 -No. 11,049. Fumaria densiflora DC. Fumariaceous annual. -No. 11,051. Helianthemum salicifolium. (l.) Mill. -No. 11,052. Allium subhirstutum L. Stamens without [cusps]; filaments subulate. -No. 11,053. Orchis -No. 11,054. Gladiolus aleppicus Boiss. -No. 11,055. Orchis sp. -No. 11,056 Fumaria parviflora Lam. This fumariod plant is annual and white-flowered. -No. 11,057. Ornithogalum. tenuifolium Guss. Perianth white, borad green band on back. FIlaments dilated downward.
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