. The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. Plants; Fertilization of plants. 294 DICECIOUS AND Chap. VII knoflrn to be dioecious. My son William found the two sexes growing in about equal numbers in tbe Isle of Wight, and sent me specimens, together with obser- vations on them. Each sex consists of two sub-forms. The two forms of the male differ in their pistils: in some plants it is quite small, without any distinct stigma; in others the pistil is much more developed, with the papillae on the stigmatic surfaces moderately large. The ovules in both kinds of males are in an
. The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. Plants; Fertilization of plants. 294 DICECIOUS AND Chap. VII knoflrn to be dioecious. My son William found the two sexes growing in about equal numbers in tbe Isle of Wight, and sent me specimens, together with obser- vations on them. Each sex consists of two sub-forms. The two forms of the male differ in their pistils: in some plants it is quite small, without any distinct stigma; in others the pistil is much more developed, with the papillae on the stigmatic surfaces moderately large. The ovules in both kinds of males are in an aborted condition. On my mentioning this case to Pro- fessor Oaspary, he examined several male plants in the botanic gardens at Konigsberg, where there were no females, and sent me the accompanying drawings. Fig, Long-styled male. Short-styled male. Khamncs CATHAKTicns. (From Caspary.) In the English plants the petals are not so greatly reduced as represented in this drawing. My son ob- served that those males which had their pistils mode- rately well developed bore slighly larger flowers, and, what is very remarkable, their poUeurgrains exceeded by a little in diameter those of the males with greatly reduced pistils. This fact is opposed, to the belief that the present species was once heterostyled; for in this case it might have been expected that the shorter- styled plants would have had larger pollen-grains. In the female plants the stamens are in an ex- tremely rudimentary condition, much more so than. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. New York : D. Appleton
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