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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. C Hybrid - L. between syphilitica. CUL-DAR205.7.212. 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-DAR205.7 contains notes on hybridism, sterility and pigeons.

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1/ Hybrid L. between syphilitica & speciosa ~~Blue~~What are habits?

2/ L. speciosissima hybrid. —~~pink~~.

Examined these two Lobelia— Stigma apparently as perfect as in L. fulgens. — I could see no trace of pollen in thecæ of 2. — & in some of 1. none, but in others I fancied I saw little, but with my lens I could not say there positively was any. —

(Kolreuter will describe)

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I examined two hybrids Tobacco's — pollen very abundant — stigma apparently quite right—

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