RECORD: Darwin, G. H. & Darwin, C. R. 1867. [sketches of dissection of Strelitzia flower]. CUL-DAR49.113-115. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe. 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-DAR49 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 3 on 'On...organic beings occasionally crossing' or dichogamy.
[113]
[sketch]
G.H. Darwin
Jan. 1867
[114]
[sketch]
G.H.D. Jan. 1867
[115]
(Strelitzia)
- stigma
- 2 petals cohering behind & forming an arrow-shaped body, with folded edge in front & acting like a huge anther, envelope real
dehiscent anther
- Blue single petal
lobe of petal -
sepal-
- orange sepal
(passage to nectary) -
orange sepal -
G.HD Jan 1867
[115v]
[printed letterhead:]
Down,
Bromley,
Kent, S. E.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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