RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Aegiphila. CUL-DAR110.B101. 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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Aegiphila — organ from exserted
stigma & anther above 1/2 down tube in long-styled form, & so with stigma of short-styled —
In short-styled abundance of pollen
In long-styled anthers very small ( ) & corner of brown fleshy substance contabescent — not a grain of pollen — dioecious —
May be case like Thyme
{Short-styled with stigma shorter & more fleshy & much thicker with surface irregular, proportion found of aggregation of larger cells had a hypertrophied appearance.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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