[B10]

June 6' 62 Pelargonium

[annotated sketch] (z) 5 longer, Sepal-facing (8 anthers) 5 shorter petal facing with 2 aborted nectary

In Budding out scarlet, I find 5 sepal-facing anther longer, than the others but graduated in length, with slope towards the mouth of nectary; & with 5 petal-facers shorter, of which two consist of only filaments; the two towards nectary increase the slope, so that an insect would [illeg] them; this is meaning of the short-stamens & new fact in Dichogamy probably in all regular flowers has same meaning. But in some of the scarlets there is one small anther on opposite side of nectary, which can be of little use, & is sometime absent; & in the large fancy Pelargon in Greenhouse is always absent - This probably parent of Beaton's dwarfs.

[B10v]

I noticed one Peloric with 8 anthers. How are they generally? & position?

Another with only 7 stamens.

I find it a mistake about the scarlet Horse-shoe, the 2 short anther face each other & this is in line of gangway - Strange if Beaton's fact true. I have looked at 3 or 4 flowers & the 8th anther absent.

Pistil when opened is straight.

I have looked at several species & 7 anthers in all. In geranium they are straight good contrast with pelargonium

[B11]

It is pretty to see how the dehiscent faces of all the anthers face the gangway in nectary - Probably explains Horse-chesnut & Dictamnus. Vaucher speaks incessantly of anther opening over nectary, in accordance with his strange notion.

In Rhododendron; there are 10 stamens: both sepal & petal facers are graduated in height. The shortest is a petal-facer (X)

[sketch] XX- XX- X petal facers

Hence the lowest pair of petal-facers (ie here the left-hand are lower than they shd be to be perfectly graduated - The lowest ones are bent (like pistil) at right angles; the next somewhat less bent & the shortest straight but right in gangway to nectary

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[B11v]

In Azalea only 5 & the petal facers seem to have been preserved which is odd.