RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].06.10-13. Erithrina corollodendron / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 660. CUL-DAR209.2.31-32. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. 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-DAR209.2 contains materials on circumnutation of leaves and stems for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880). Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 381.
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closed, never display brightly coloured petals, which are these being more or less rudimentary, never secrete nectar, never are odoriferous, have very small anthers which produce only a few grains of pollen, with stigmas but little developed. Bearing in mind that some flowers, called anemophilous by Delpino, are crossed fertilised by the
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distance, may here be notice. well deserve attention.* This facts are is best shown by the impossibility in many cases of raising two varieties of the same species pure, if they growing at all near together; but to this subject I shall hereafter return; also by the many cases of hybrids which have appeared spontaneously both in gardens and a state of nature With [text excised]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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