RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. The Robinsonia of Juan Fernandez which has flowers of same sex of two. CUL-DAR111.B6. 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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The Robinsonia of Juan Fernandez, which has flowers of same sex of two different forms are

4/ in the same capitulatum.— Hence difference (I think) of flowers in capitulatum is owing to pressure & not to sex.— as may be inferred in Umbelliferæ.— 2

When thus taken (I think not) Robinsonia is a [illeg] Plant — True??


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