RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1862.05.30. Green-house Polygala. CUL-DAR49.82. 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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Green-house Polygala - passage to nectary to flower on right hand upper side - Brush of filaments the same side & I believe is landing place for insects & perhaps pollen collector - when this is depressed stigma & anther come out through a slit just as in Leguminosæ & stigma project to side on which insect would stand to suck copious nectar
[in margin:] Mr. Turnbull Aug 30/62/ (over
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there is no sheath separating anther & stigma is in our Polygala.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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