RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. n.d. Abstract of Braun, The vegetable individual, in its relation to species. CUL-DAR109.A68. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN1
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Alexander Braun. 1856. The vegetable individual, in its relation to species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18, series 2: 363-86.
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Annals & Mag of Nat. Hist.
(2nd series) vol. 18 1856 p. 380.
Dr A. Braun quotes Schimper's observations in the "Versammlung. d. Natur. zu Weisb. in Sept 1852." that in the labiata as in Dracocephalum Moldavicum, there are hermaphrodite plants, bearing 2 forms.
[Forms of flowers, pp. 298-9: "Species belonging to the present class, which I have called gyno-diœcious, are found in various widely distinct families; but are much more common in the Labiatæ (as has long been noticed by botanists) than in any other group. Such cases have been noticed by myself in Thymus serpyllum and vulgaris, Satureia hortensis, Origanum vulgare, and Mentha hirsuta; and by others in Nepeta glechoma, Mentha vulgaris and aquatica, and Prunella vulgaris. In these two latter species the female form, according to H. Müller, is infrequent. To these must be added Dracocephalum Moldavicum, Melissa officinalis and clinipodium, and Hyssopus officinalis.*
* For Dracocephalum, Schimper, as quoted by Braun, 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.' 2nd series, vol. xviii. 1856, p. 380."]
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