RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1862.05.30. [Note on spikes of Arachnites.] CUL-DAR70.25. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. RN1
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May 30 62: 2 spikes of Arachnites sent me by Mr Oxenden, kept in water (& young flowers opened) for more than week & intentionally jarred strongly & often, the pollinia did not fall out. The Shining lateral knobs at base of Lab. are larger than in Bee; if these be perforated by insects, then this wd be important difference. A more important one, is that the stigmatic surface is more perpendicular & therefore more open with respect to base of Labellum in the Bee than in Arachnites; evidently so as allow surface to be struck by its own pollinia in the Bee.
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