RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1863.06.21. Verbascum lychnitis when struck does not cast corolla nor do sepals close. CUL-DAR108.5. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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).

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June 21. 63. Verbascum lychnitis, when struck does not cast corolla, nor do sepals close over ovarium.

I believe flowers do not close. I believe V. phœniceum does not cast flowers; certainly sepals do not close over ovarium.─

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Roughness— dark of greenness — size of leaves — slightly in pointedness of leafstalk— tall-ness of plant, slightly in wings of stem but differing, except in 2 first points scarcely more than [illeg]

 

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