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(3) Properly Chymocarpus pentaphyllus. The Tropæolum majus or Nasturtium. The scales or little petals are developed into five large petals the three upper ones which in this flower seem harder to [illeg] make the 3 fringed upper petals in Nasturtium. The nectary must be the calyx with abortive petals in this flower - variable abortive part & returning to proper state

Shrewsbury July 1842

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Abortion & Retrograde good

[partially excised:] common that are fertile.

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In one plant of tropeolum pentifolium on the lower side of the mouth of the nectary on the inside there is one or two little petal-like scales one of which is often more developed than the other in a seedling plant from this these scales form 2 good sized petals & in (3)

some flowers 2 or 3 other petals on the upper side. In the former plant the scale extremely minute & on the right hand side looking into nectary often entirely adhering. What is the nectary? & what are these petals. What is the fimbrated organ in the yellow tropeolum?