RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Lecoq, Géographie Bot. de l' Europe, vol. 8 / Proof sheet of Orchids, p. 232. CUL-DAR109.A69. 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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p. 9 says in Mentha stigmata aborted in one set!!

26  Origanum vulgare strictly dioicious.

29 Thyme quotes Vaucher that stigmata more or less aborted.— then quotes flowers with hood are not dioicious & gives Dracocephalum as a case!!

32. Satureia Hortense — Herm flower anthers [illeg] corolla but protected in the males!!! — the plant often polygamus

33 Satureia montana 2 forms dioicious!

38 Calamitha officinalis, vel. Melissa officnalis Balm. quotes Vaucher 2 forms.— 1 Herm & 1♀

M clinipodium — 2 forms

44 Hyssopus officinalis — polygamus

48 Nepata glechoma — plant unisexual

Lecoq vol 8.—

[Forms of flowers, p. 299: "*Lecoq, 'Géographie Bot. de l'Europe,' tom. viii. pp. 33, 38, 44, &c. Both Vaucher and Lecoq were mistaken in thinking that several of the plants named in the text are diœcious. They appear to have assumed that the hermaphrodite form was a male; perhaps they were deceived by the pistil not becoming fully developed and of proper length until some time after the anthers have dehisced."]

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[Proof sheet of Orchids, p. 232.]


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