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July 13/56/ I have been watching grasses - many as Cymosum Cats' Tail [aneutherum] Dactylis & open all florets & expose fully bristle like stigma - other as Festuca pasture but through one side - Wheat I found seldom open more than one floret, & that as far as I can ascertain for only very few hours 4-6 or even less & they close leaving anther dangling outside - at this time back stigma is fully in view - at this time pollen is shed, & is easily dispersed, & many be seen sticky about ears - the ponderous anther with long [lustrous] thus filament seems adapted to shed pollen. I cannot doubt, notwithstanding Deslongchamps must cross - yet I know cases of Botanus gardenii; but did they flower at same time! & it wd require insect observation to persist cross between such allied varieties. Certainly opening of floret less conspicuous than in other grasses.

x Wheat

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Shrewsbury July 10 /41/

Wheat apparently anthers when ready to burst, depend by very long slender filament & shed one after another plenty of pollen (wh varies about 1/375 of inch) stigma together with immature stigmas on short anthers together with stigmas fimbriated & notched like Burnet are shut up in scales of flower - yet I can only understand structure by supposing that often diœcious or monoœcious like the Poterium