RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1876-1877]. Draft of Forms of flowers, p. 13. CUL-DAR111.B18. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR111 contains notes on illegitimate progeny of dimorphic and trimorphic plants for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).
(Introduction)
Lecoq vol 5, p. 367 acer campestre ♂ and ♀ Hence flowers in same bunch — some individual tree dioecious — so the polygam & dioecious condition pass into each other.
As an instance of monoecious Polygamy
(I have now by now finished my brief sketch of the various differences in the kinds of flowers produced by the same species of plant, as far as I have been able to discern, as known to me & will proceed to Full duration with respect to now be given in the previous chapter with respect to some of the group some of the changes & groups of plants of plants nature in this Introduction. I will begin with the [illeg] Plants plants) & then pass & then, passing on to a certain dioecious, sub-dioecious, & polygam species, & ending end with Cleistogamic plants.
[in margin:] (Keep Back)
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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