RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1862.09.25. Clarkia pulchella has 4 aborted stamens. CUL-DAR48.A50. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. 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-DAR48 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 8 'Transitions of Organs'. Notes on bees' cells for origin of species theory.
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Sept 25/62 Bournemouth. Clarkia pulchella has 4 aborted stamens with little shrivelled anthers without pollen. C. Elegans good gradation; will be worth testing power of pollen, as case of gradation. Shorter stamens Do not disappear as in Spergula. Hooker spoke of non-polliniferous anthers as sometimes of different colours, & E. elegans shows this fact before entire abortion.
Gradation & Experiment
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