RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1866.06.29. George gathered 15 flower-stalks of the Echium from field beyond Orchis. CUL-DAR109.A15. Edited by John van Wyhe (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).
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Jun 29' 1866. George gathered 15 flower-stalks of the Echium from field beyond Orchis bank ─ not very dry─ season has been wet of these only 4 had long stamen & 11 had short imperfect stamens ─ most The shortness varies.─ Most of them even in big bud no vestige of pollen, yet the anthers dehisced ─ a few in bud & open had a mass of granular matter consisting of minute spheres in parts cohering & passing into amorphous matter, which did not swell in water ─ I saw no mycelium, which Mr. J. Traherne Moggridge saw in some of the flowers & which he suggested might be cover of abortion.─
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H Muller p. 265 apparently [illeg]
(Sir J. E. smith nothing.)
Lecoq 0 do
Vaucher 0
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