RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1876-1877]. Draft of Forms of flowers, p. 13. CUL-DAR111.B18. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. 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 volume CUL-DAR111 contains notes on illegitimate progeny of dimorphic and trimorphic plants for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).
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Lecoq vol 5, p. 367 acer campestre ♂ and ♀ Hence flowers in same bunch — some individual tree dioecious — so the polygam & dioecious condition pass into each other.
As an instance of monoecious Polygamy
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(I have now by now finished my brief sketch of the various differences in the kinds of flowers produced by the same species of plant, as far as I have been able to discern, as known to me & will proceed to Full duration with respect to now be given in the previous chapter with respect to some of the group some of the changes & groups of plants of plants nature in this Introduction. I will begin with the [illeg] Plants plants) & then pass & then, passing on to a certain dioecious, sub-dioecious, & polygam species, & ending end with Cleistogamic plants.
[in margin:] (Keep Back)
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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