RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1841.07. Leighton told me [about Campanula anthers]. CUL-DAR49.28. 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: William Allport Leighton (1805-89) was an Anglican clergyman and lichenologist, Darwin's schoolfellow at Mr Case's school, Shrewsbury and fellow student at Cambridge. 1841 published the Flora of Shropshire.
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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Shrewsbury July / 41/ Mr Allport Leighton told me / I have confirmed it in many species / that in Campanula anthers burst when flower closed & stigma shut – stigma does not expand till sometime after flower opens – the pollen thus lodged on hairs on style ( [illeg] on corolla?) & outside of segments of stigma whence I have seen innumerable Bees removing it. Then must effect impregnation.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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