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Maer June 7th /42/ (Ch 3) " Crucianella stylosa " Elizabeth. W. (Dichogam).... (dried) pistils very long.— (??)

Simple case of dichogamy

After several hot days on pricking full buds division of corolla burst open & pistil sprung out to a considerable height & immediately continued quickly to extend to almost its usual normal length — in other buds opened naturally then does not seem to be this spiny, but merely rapid growth extension. style lies curved in tube of corolla:

Stigma club-shaped. rugosa. externally mouth of corolla narrow, with anthers resting on it— pollen shed before flower opens — & is carried out adhering to stigma. — pollen minute, & pretty plentiful & easily blown by wind— stigma double rugosa, not very large, smaller but like Mercurialis perennis. — in full opened flowers all pollen shed & stigma externally clean.

In pistil on first opening, has its stigmas

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closed it opens some little time before they open & are seen to be humid.— by that time pollen seemed entirely removed by movement of long slender style. —(like a grass). — curious replacement for Lobelia & Compositæ — rugosa knobbed stigma, instead of brush.= at narrow corolla instead of united anthers = & crooked style, instead of slow growth of whole pistil wh. seems case in Lobelia.—

I find style is zig zag in corolla & slowly straightens by elasticity. — cannot see anyothercases of stigma springing out, but certainly exclusion rigid.—