RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1866.06.19 W[illiam] sent me fl[owers] of Rhamnus catharticus from Is of W. CUL-DAR109.A41. 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 19th 66. W. sent me fl. of Rhamnus catharticus from Is. of W. Female fl with very rudimentary stamens & do petals & male sepals.— Male fl. with rudiment of pistil— & larger petals, yet 1/2 aborted or minute & large sepals.— Thirdly a kind of Herm: with quite small but large pistil than in male fl. good sized stamens & petals as in male fl. It is apparently made with pistil not so completely aborted & so species less rudimentary unisexual as a whole than in Holly.— As stamens are more aborted in →
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female, than pistil in all, certainly than in Herm. form, probably existed like Thyme.—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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