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RECORD: Anon. 1862. [Review of Primula]. Magazine of horticulture, botany etc. (Boston), vol. 28 (February): 77.

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe. 7.2021. RN1

NOTE: See the record for this item in the Freeman Bibliographical Database by entering its Identifier here. Darwin, C. R. 1862. On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula, and on their remarkable sexual relations. [Read 21 November 1861] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 6: 77-96.

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Mr. Darwin, at a late meeting of the Linnæen Society read a very interesting paper on the "Dimorphic condition in the species of Primula and on their remarkable sexual relations." Similar relations exist in some species of the strawberry, whose character is invariable and perpetual; and it is remarkable that it should have received so little attention from scientific botanists. An acknowledgment of this, and the general dissemination of the fact, would tend to explain the failure of numerous varieties to produce abundant crops.

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