RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. n.d. We can easily understand how it is that in Hottonia tree. CUL-DAR111.B26. 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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p 352 We can easily understand how it is that in Hottonia tree ─ fertilisation of the stigmas of the long-stamened styled flowers with the pollen of long-stamened styled flowers of other stocks has retained its full efficacy, when we [illeg] picture to ourselves that the prepotent influence of legitimate crosses in other dimorphic & trimorphic plants has originated in the following manner. The latter are in nature fertilised by the visiting insects exclusively or almost exclusively legitimately, and accordingly other modes of fertilisation, in as far as they are not put into practice and are quite useless, might probably be wasted, and actually have been so to a greater or less extent:
& the possibility of other crosses might be lost, I see in both more or less lost
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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