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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Mollia lepidota crowd of anthers graduated from very long to short / Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation, p. 24, published, p. 46. CUL-DAR110.B19. 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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Mollia lepidota crowd of anthers graduated from very long to short-stigma a little beneath level of uppermost anthers

M. speciosa same relation of parts.

Gilia pulchella Long-styled apparently protandrous at the corolla observations given in length & pistil ─ in some old flowers stigmas ~~projecting~~ projecting beyond tips of the lobe of corolla, in the flower, above ~~2/3 up b~~ 1/3 from tip of lobes E anthers in throat or mouth of tube of corolla

Short-styled the 4 anthers project up to above 2/3 of length of lobes of corolla beyond throat ─ tip of stigma just above throat.

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[Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation, p. 24, published, p. 46.]

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