RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1861-1862]. Draft of Orchids, p. 196: [bottom half only]. CUL-DAR110.B10r. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2026. 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).
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If a thick needle be inserted into the mouth of the nectary (fig. A) & then withdrawn, the viscid disc will surely be withdrawn, bearing with it the elegant fan of radiating pollen-masses. These undergo no change in position. But if the needle be now inserted into the nectary of another flower (fig. C.) the ends of the pollen-masses necessarily hit the upper surface & the laterally sloping sides of the rostellum, & glancing off
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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