RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Gillibert, Act. Acad. St Petersburgh. CUL-DAR111.A69. 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. 310.

[69]

(Dimorphic)

Act. Acad. St. Petersburgh 1777, II Part p. 45. Mr. Gillibert says the Menyanthus trifoliata or Buck-bean one of Gentianeæ nat. fam., the stamens cast pollen, when flower quite closed so that humidity is "dans cetta plants aquatique" should not injure fruitification — Elizabeth says grows in Maer bog & most strictly aquatic.— This plant thus flowering in Russia may throw light on Diaba (?) Subularia which flowers under water in Scotch Locks.—

I see in Hooker's Flora he says I have seen perfect flower of Subularia under water.— as if exception.—

= Cleistogene

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