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Collinsia bicolor.

Allen Wedgwood June 8 /42/

[annotated sketch] Nectary Standard Wings Keel

[annotated sketch] standard front view wings} keel hidden beneath wings

Apparently a Didynam[ous] Labiate plant.

Standard petal deeply cleft upright with hinder part bombè like lower petal of Antirrhinum, at base of bombè part just by base of two little hairy stalks drop of honey -wings slightly lapping over each other horizontal entirely hiding Keel. Keel horizontal formed exactly as in Pap. flowers, with point of stigma pistil larger than stamens protruding a little bit. - A Bee alighting on either wing, which it must do to get honey depresses wing & keel just as in Pap. flowers. - Stamens become mature one after another - base of standard hairy within corolla. = No I find there is a nectary within tube of corolla within calyx on hinder part. The two hairy bodies correspond to base of two stamens in Salvia & are

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obvious continuations of it. Wing petals fine purple. - the two hairy or rather papillose organs, reflex part of the two shorter stamens lie parallel & close over nectary, but Bees inserting proboscis between them could hardly move & only laterally stamens - the two longer stamens blend into keel about 1/3 distance up it - Pretty gradation into Pap. structure of flowers.