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Summary
Describes the appearance and occurrence of imperfect flowers of “Hex.[?] Trigynia”.
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[A note, describing abortive pistils in the flowers of Veratrum nigrum. CD has added in ink ‘Don says is [‘s’ over ‘n’] Polygamia!!!’f2.]
Footnotes
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- This note, in Catherine Darwin’s hand, is probably a copy made for CD from a newspaper or journal.
- f2
- A mistake for James Donn. Donn 1823 classifies Veratrum nigrum under Polygamia, the Linnean class of plants that have male, female, and hermaphrodite flowers on the same or different individuals.