RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1864.06.08. Euonymus / Anthers of Female plants regularly dehisce. CUL-DAR109.A33. 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).


[A33]

Euonymus June 8' 64 Anthers of Female plants regularly dehisce! but are quite empty —

Pistil of male flowers, when full grown are quite as long b rather longer than of female flowers — Plenty of pollen cohere to stigma Ø

[A33v]

of barren male flowers!! Some of the pollen-grains had emitted tubes & I believe had penetrated stigma.— Plenty of pollen on stigma.—

Stigma under 1/10 identical in the 2 forms


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