RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1862.07.30. saw Humble-bees collecting pollen from Verbascum. CUL-DAR49.80. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 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.
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July 30 62 - saw Humble-bees collecting pollen from Verbascum.
The nectary - books say secrete no honey & I could see none. - I suspect Campanula is visited for pollen alone.
Kölreuter says largely visited
Dichogam
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