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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Leucosmia Burnetti / Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 58-9. CUL-DAR110.B8. 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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Leucosmia Burnetti

5 anthers with tips [sketch] just above mouth of corolla & way to base of stigma & 5 other anthers a little lower down, by about the height of upper anthers ─ lower anthers sm rather smaller than upper ones

L Short-styled form with stigma some way down tube ─ lower another of mouth of corolla ─ upper anthers on filament projecting quite beyond mouth of corolla

Filament attached to corolla, except upper part free

[sketch] Long-styled

[sketch] Short-styled

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[Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 58-9.]

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