RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Ascherson, Ueber die Fruchtbildung bei Oryza clandestina. CUL-DAR111.A58. 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, p. 335.

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Leersia = Oryza clandestina

It is clear that from Dr. P. Ascherson, Bot. Zeitung 1864 p. 350 that Leersia oryzoides on produces perfect florets & bears fruit in parts of Germany.

[Insertion:] set fruit comprising

(to see if [illeg])

This seems especially to occur in drier places.—

At p. 145— 1864 there is paper by J Waltz on the cleistogene flowers of Lamium amplexicaule. nothing particular pollen-tubes come out of anthers— (over)

[in margin:] Dr Dr A himself observe [illeg]

(Sept 1875)— (Keep) (Cleistogene Portfolio)

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Ascherson shows not on his own cutting— that the panicle protruded that & seeded copiously in one part of Germany.—

[Crossed lines not transcribed]

(Terminal portion of [illeg] pistil of ononis straight — stigma very little enlarged

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