RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878.06].18. Acacia retinoides / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio b. CUL-DAR209.3.60-62. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN1
NOTE: 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. 371.
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the Trochilidæ, 1861 p. 15, 120; Gard. Chronicle 1869, p. 389; the Naturalist of Nicaragua, p. 129; Journal of Linn. Soc. Bot. Vol. XIII. 1872 p. 151.). I may add that I often saw in Chile a Mimus with its head yellow with pollen from, as I believe, a Cassia. I have been assured that at the Cape of Good Hope, Strelitzia is fertilised by the Nectarinidæ. There can hardly be a doubt that many Australian flowers are fertilised by the many honey-sucking birds of that country.
In New Zealand many specimens of the Anthoruis melanuva had their heads coloured with pollen from the flowers of an endemic species of Fuchsia: ( Potts, Trans=
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