RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of? Dimorphic species. CUL-DAR109.A56. 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).
See Forms of flowers, p. 249.
[A56]
p. 95 In the The anthers of in the long-styled form (& brand of Pul. augustifolia (& therefore belonging to the shorter stamens) are often the longest yet they contained a large proportion of D pollen-grains; as if becoming becoming rudimentary Can this bear on life of corolla— see to this.—
Menyanthes trifoliata — A anther vary but are often larger in long short-styled flowers, & the stigma of long-styled larger.
Limnathemum In short-styled anther as 100 to 20 compared with those of long-styled — in the latter stigma twice as large — pollen-grain equal in 2 forms & ovule equally numerous.—
p. 113 Villarsia — anther of short-styled flowers comprising larger than in long-styled, & in latter stigma larger.
Faramea, anther of short-styled a little larger — stigma longer, thin curled
Houstonia cœulea anther of short-styled larger — stigma longer, less [illeg]
Oldenlandia
Lipostoma — long-style pistil & stigma longer — in short-styled anther smaller
Cinchona micrantha — in short-styled anther considerably longer, & stigma much shorter or 59 to 100
[A56v]
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into short-styled — — — & show, we can
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(12', 8')
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