RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Size of corolla / Proof sheet of Orchids, p. 210. CUL-DAR109.A50. 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).


[A50]

Euonymus larger corolla of ♀ smaller

Rhamnus catharticus corolla petals & sepals decidedly smaller larger in the ♀

Epigæa—

Holly corolla of female smaller

Strawberry moss to follow Euonymus.

Straw being female small flowers p 716 by Christs

3 sized flowers. — with some made to [4 words illeg]

Labiata corolla of ♀ smaller

Scobiosa atro-purpurea & [illeg] do. do do.—

Echium vulgare. do do. do.

Plantago corolla does not open

Palm augustifolia. corolla of short styled smaller than corolla of long-styled, yet anther & long-styled more ♀ as containing run bad f grad

of short-style contained less proportion of bad pollen

(Law was good whether strictly dioicious or that the Herm. can only tendency to become ♂)

Sepals being smaller in ♀ Rhamnus look, like reduced size from correlation — but may have been aided by not selection

Doubling of flowers.

[A50v]

[Proof sheet of Orchids, p. 210.]


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