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Shrewsbury July 10th / 41/ All the Lemon Thyme & part of common is abortive like that at Maer, & some I think, even more so ─ The common ones all from seedlings from Luton Park ─ so that parents were productive ─ The Lemon Thyme came from Sundown. ─ Part of the common Thyme from same place in less abortive anthers so large as to be easily visible to naked eye, & filament not so short ─ (NB In more Dodgier plant filament are naturally united by way to corolla / Mem Salvia Salvia abortive pair of stamens)

I dissected some of their brown, rather misshapen but apparently no one pollen grain = some dried specimen ─

These just proved some wild Thyme ─ stamens are united to tube are the most abortive part ─ even in less abortive state anthers smaller & not so symmetrically bilobed as in wild ─ In latter in garden state it seems rather larger & projects as soon as flower opens ─ Pollen not abundant in wild =