RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1863.05. L. fulgens in Hot-House. CUL-DAR49.88. 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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May 1863. L fulgens in Hot-House - front of column & lower lip of corolla both furrowed so as to leave only very narrow channel; The Bee wd. be sure to force the base of proboscis with this; & by this movement column bent backwards, & this always forces a little stream of pollen out. - I at first anthers were sensitive as in some Compositæ – [illeg] of stigma only acts by keeping [illeg] up successively shorter of pollen to orifice of anthers. - Same in little blue Lobelia.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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