RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1862.05.29. On new cut on a bank of exactly same character & aspect. CUL-DAR109.A22. 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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On new cut on a bank of exactly same character & aspect I marked a male Female & Herm.
Thyme plant & waited till in seed & then gathered. & cut off all the flower heads separately. When dried the heap of Heads looked nearly equal. But there were 160 Female Heads & 200 Hermaphrodite Heads; & the latter struck me as smaller.
May 29 62. I observe in garden thyme, the Herm. flowers are much larger than the female. This opposed to lac[k] of compensation — it is rather law of correlation, for doubling &c shows close relation of stamens & petals & here with rudimentary stamens, corolla much reduced in size.—
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Thyme
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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