RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1841.07.10. [Observations on wheat]. CUL-DAR49.44v. 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: 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.
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Wheat apparently anthers when ready to burst depend by very long slender filament
anther plenty of pollen (wh carries about 1/375 of [illeg]/ stigma together with immature stigma on short anther is together with 2 stigma fimbriated & [illeg] like Burnet are shut up in scales of flower – yet I can only understand structure by supposing that often diœcious or monœcious like the Poterium.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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