The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].06.10-11. Canna warscewiczii / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.93. 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: 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. 381.

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wind, and others called entomophilous, by insects, we can further understand, as was pointed out by me several years ago* (*Journal of Linn. Soc. Vol. VIII. Bot. 1863, p. 77) the great contrast in appearance between these two classes of flowers. Anemophilous flowers resemble in many respects ~~the~~ cleistogene flowers, but differ widely in not being closed in produc [bottom of page excised]

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