RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1841.06. A scarlet Azalea wh flowered badly. CUL-DAR205.8.2. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. 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-DAR205.8 contains notes on the genus Monochaetum and other plants.
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Maer Jun / 41/
A scarlet azalea wh. flowered badly — examined from flower on one bunch all Pentandria. — one had two stigma, but each of them had two stigma & two united style. 2d was one at base but higher up set of branch & above anther remained seem formed of two styles united [sketch]
3d consisted of three pistils one double — so that these three flowers are essentially Tetradymia — but a 4th flower had five perfect pistils. — Several other Azalea Pontica & America & hybrid azalea & Rhododendron was all monoggamia
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another bunch of 4 flowers were all Pentagonia — but in two, one of the pistil was deformed & curled up. In another bunch of two flowers both were Pentagonia; several of the stems in them were of unequal height & deformed
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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