RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. n.d. Abstract of Darwin, Erasmus, Loves of the plants. CUL-DAR111.B21. 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).
Darwin, Erasmus. 1825. The botanic garden, a poem, in two parts, containing the economy of vegetation, and the loves of the plants, with philosophical notes. London: Jones & Company. PDF A938
See Forms of flowers, p. 6.
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Loves of The Plants Canto II line 184 note
"These essential oils …. are all deleterious to some certain insects & hence their use in the vegetable economy being produced in flowers or leaves to protect them from the depredation of their voracious enemies."
ditto line 188 note
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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