RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1862.04.24. George saw Cucullea verbasci. CUL-DAR108.132. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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 volumes CUL-DAR108-111 contain material for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).
Darwin, C. R. 1864. On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. [Read 16 June.] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 8: 169-196. See p. 177. Darwin here refers to his son, George Howard Darwin.
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April 24. 1862 George saw Cucullea verbasci flying over great bed of Cowslips, with a multitude of pollen-grains on proboscis — pollen in general appearance like that of Cowslips & of two sizes; most of smaller grains near tip. — both forms mingled together.
Used in Lythrum paper.
[not in Darwin's hand:] in Jnl of Linn. Soc. (Botany) viii, 1865. p. 177
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