RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Relative Diameter of the Pollen-grains / Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation, p. 158. CUL-DAR111.B10. 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 volume CUL-DAR111 contains notes on illegitimate progeny of dimorphic and trimorphic plants for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).

See Forms of flowers, p. 249.


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Leucosmia - pollen-grains 100 to 99.

pistil 100 to 86 in length

stigma of short-styled longer as 100 to 60 & more papillose

Gilia pulchella pis pollen-grain 100 to 100

pistil 100 to 82 in same specimen

stigma of long-styled more papillose & as 100 to 40 in length. normal

Gilia micrantha pollen-grains 100 to 81

stigma as in last species

Cratoxylon pollen-grain 100 to 84

pistil 100 to 40

(from several theory)

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[Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation, p. 158.]


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