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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-96--461824318 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Hans, On 29-Jun-09, at 8:00 AM, Hans Toom wrote: > I've posted several pictures taken on route and some from yesterday > at Sandy Cove Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia. There's a Snap Dragon > species we can't identify, marked as such, so if anyone knows what > it is let me know so I can caption the photo correctly. This is Yellow-rattle (Rhinanthus crista-galli L.) in the Scrophulariaceae, the snap-dragon family. The one in your photo is variety fallax (Wimm and Grab.), which has some violet colouring on the corolla. The flower is actually open already, but in yellow-rattle the calyx (the joined sepals) forms a capsule around the base of the flower. The seeds then form in this capsule, and later in the season when they are mature, the rattle around in this pod, giving rise to the common name. :-> All the best! Chris Christopher Majka - Atlantic Canada Coleoptera http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/atlantic_coleoptera.html c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca --Apple-Mail-96--461824318 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Hans,<div><br><div><div>On = 29-Jun-09, at 8:00 AM, Hans Toom wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; = font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: = auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div = bgcolor=3D"#ffffff"><div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">I've posted several = pictures taken on route and some from yesterday at Sandy Cove Road, = Halifax, Nova Scotia. There's a <strong>Snap Dragon = species</strong> we can't identify, marked as such, so if anyone = knows what it is let me know so I can caption the photo = correctly.</span></div><div><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"2"></font></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div>Thi= s is Yellow-rattle (<i>Rhinanthus crista-galli</i> L.) in the = Scrophulariaceae, the snap-dragon family. The one in your photo is = variety <i>fallax</i> (Wimm and Grab.), which has some violet colouring = on the corolla. The flower is actually open already, but in = yellow-rattle the calyx (the joined sepals) forms a capsule around the = base of the flower. The seeds then form in this capsule, and later in = the season when they are mature, the rattle around in this pod, giving = rise to the common name. :-></div><div><br></div><div>All the = best!</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><br><br><div = apple-content-edited=3D"true"> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: = none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; "><div>Christopher Majka - Atlantic Canada = Coleoptera</div><div><a = href=3D"http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/atlantic_coleoptera.html= ">http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/atlantic_coleoptera.html</a></= div><div><a = href=3D"mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca">c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca</a></div><= div><br class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-96--461824318--
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