RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of Robert Brown's 'Some observations on the natural family of plants called Compositæ']. CUL-DAR49.126. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 4.2021. RN1
NOTE: Darwin refers to Robert Brown, 'Some Observations on the natural Family of Plants called Compositæ'. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 1818, vol. 12: 1.
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.
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Linn. Trans XII p. 101
Brown on the Compositæ says in Hermaphrodite flowers the development of stamina usually precedes that of pistilla. The most remarkable exceptions occur in Plantago, where the stigmata are fully developed - even withered before the bursting of the Antheræ
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