RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Cleistogenous flowers, American Naturalist. CUL-DAR111.A66. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2025. RN2
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American Nat Nov. 1873 p. 692 On Cleistogenous flowers in Oxybaphus & Nyctagineæ
Gray, Asa. 1873. Cleistogenous flowers. American Naturalist 7: 692. The entire note is as follows: "CLEISTOGENOUS FLOWERS are produced late in the season, and almost exclusively by Oxybaphus nyctagineus, as observed by H. W. Patterson, of Oquawka, Illinois. In Nyctaginia capitata, of Texas, as cultivated in the botanic garden here several years ago, we noticed the opposite of this, i.e., all the earlier flowers were cleistogenous.— A. G."
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