RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878?].06.14-16. Glaucium luteum / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.214. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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-DAR209.3 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
Notes for Movement in plants. Text F1325. Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 374-5.
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Glaucium luteum
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present the rare case of their flowers being dingy or having obscurely coloured. or dingy flowers.
The storage of a supply of nectar in a protected place is manifestly related to connected with the visits of insects. So is the position which the stamens and pistils occupy, either permanently or through their own movements at the proper time, period, they invariably stand [text excised] the pathway leading to the nectary.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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