RECORD: Darwin, C. R. and Francis Darwin. 1877. Leucosmia / Short style form / Long styled form. CUL-DAR110.B6-B7. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2025. 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).
B6
Leucosmia.
Short style form
Pollen
Longer stamens —21.5 — average of 13 observations }21.8
Shorter stamens 22.1 9 observations }
[A Gray's letter of 22/12/76 pinned here]
Long styled form
Longer stamens 21.7 — 12 observations } 21.6
Shorter stamens 21.5 — 12 observations }
Pistil – short style — 44 mm
Long styled 57 = 100 to 86.2
Stigma of short style to that of long style in length as 100 to 60.
Short style stigma clearly more papillose
B6v
[calculations not transcribed]
B7
Pollen March 3d 1877
Leucosmia.
Long stamens short style (HK 8 tube in)
[remaining calculations not transcribed]
B7v
Longest stamens - short styled
[calculations not transcribed]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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