RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1841.06.01. Examined the Lemon-thyme. CUL-DAR109.A16. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR108-111 contain material for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).
This is also transcribed in the Torn Apart notebook. CUL-DAR-TornApartNotebook
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June 1st 1841. Maer Examined the Lemon-thyme equally abortive as it was in autumn: filaments united in whole length to corolla ─ anthers minute, distinctly double, brown, but with no pollen.─
Common Thyme growing close by is equally abortive ─ and in Hybrids that although anthers nor plants shrivel, yet stigma does not, so we may feel somewhat but little surprised at Henslow's remark that pistil does not become abortive.
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Examined in microscope — some of the stigmas of [sketch] shape of ordinary Labiatæ —the chief part with ordinary divisions, & a few with one lobe again divided Have dried some. — some with no division in young flowers. The abortive stamens are of unequal height. —
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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