RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. 1864.04.26. Pulmonaria angustifolia. CUL-DAR110.A43. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1

NOTE: 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 record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here.


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Ap. 26. 1864

Pulmonaria

Pistil of long styled (yet not reaching up to clefts of corolla) thrice as long as short-styled and rising considerably above stamens of short-styled. Stigma of short-styled corresponds with stamens of long-styled. In short-st- stamens project above hairy fringe at mouth of corolla: in long-st they are situated half way between fringe & base of tube of corolla, I cd see no great difference in roughness of 2 stigmas

over—

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stamens in the one twice as long as the other.

In long-styled the anthers (of its shorter stamens) are decidedly longer than those of the short-st- ie short-styled small anthers.

Corolla of long-st. seems def bigger but largest grain of pollen & W. [William] says [2 words illeg] & calyx more swollen—

(omit about quantity of pollen.


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