RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1841.06. Green-cabbage in flower. CUL-DAR49.144. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: First transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, corrections by John van Wyhe 6-7.2009. Text prepared by Christine Chua 1.2022. 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-DAR49 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 3 on 'On...organic beings occasionally crossing' or dichogamy.
Darwin, C. R. Torn Apart notebook (1839-1841). Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker. CUL-DAR-TornApartNotebook
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Rough. – green-cabbage in flower – swarmed with meligethes & small Staphylinidæ on all their bodies pollen – on a sulphur Broccoli not many do – pollen not very abundant. not very small – Saw one small Bee; saw another on Cabbage – white Butterflies suck nectar:
Maer June 41
Rhubarb pollen very minute - not excessively abundant flowers not attractive, very small - stigma rather large & rough - flowers common - many winged thrips, covered with pollen - Thrips about as large as bit of chopped horse hair with legs & take flight - Yet we have crosses - I see Bees almost
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every flower - Blue-bells - wild-raspberry - leeks - Flowers which thought very unattractive - Found Rhubarb blossom swarming with small Staphylinidæ - Anapsis, Melegethes, Leptuse —Diptera & small Hymenoptera
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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