RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].09.13. Iberis umbellata / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 3. CUL-DAR209.3.218. 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 on Circumnutation of leaves and hyponasty 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. 2.

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Candy-tuft. Sept 13th Feebly lighted from vertically above

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Introduction

reaching the stigma of the same flower. There is a small class of plants, which I have called dimorphic and trimorphic, but to which Hildebrand has given the more appropriate name of heterostyled; and these consist of plants consisting of two or three distinct forms, or castes adapted for reciprocal fertilisation, so that like plants with separate sexes they can hardly fail to be intercrossed in each generation. The male and female organs of some flowers are irritable, so that the & the insects which touch them get dusted with pollen

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