RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.06.05-07. Verbena melindres Fig 112 / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 620. CUL-DAR209.3.312-313. 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).
Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 359.
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Verbena chamaedrys melindres (?)
(same scale 4 sets of lettering) Fig 112
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(scarlet-flower herbac var.) Verbena herbaceous ─ Scarlet-flowered Herba
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state add that on one occasion all the flowers on some unprotected plants I were examined and found every single one with the lower had its petals separated; and, on a second occasion 41 out of 43 flowers examined were in this state. Hildebrand states (Pring. Jahr. f. Wiss. Botanik, B. VII. p. 450) that the mechanism of the parts in this species is nearly the same as in C. ochroleuca, which he has fully described.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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