RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. 1866.07.26. Leersia - Several panicles of the imperfect flowers. CUL-DAR111.A37. 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: 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).

See Forms of flowers, pp. 333-4.

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Leersia July 26/66 — Several panicles of the imperfect flowers, slightly brown & almost ripe, have protruded some way down the culin. But now al two immense tree like panicle has come out from top of culin; from plant which grew in tub without being in pot the florets are quite green & include large anthers with long filaments, but the anthers have opened & the stigmas are fertilised, the florets being quite closed. This seems a step to the production of perfect florets. Spec preserved in Bag in Bottle.— Pollen 7/7000 of inch

[in margin:] no doubt by of seeds

Can be looked at if required to see if anthers are really larger.—

These panicles have now (one of them) [Caught]

17th ripened an abundance of fine seed.—

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