RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1863.05.24. Poterium sanguisorba. CUL-DAR49.96v. 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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Poterium sanguisorba - May 24/63/ No corolla - longer than dangling filaments - as soon as they appear, the anthers dehisce & shed all their incoherent pollen - This sudden shedding of pollen is chief character of incoherent pollen - incoherent to anther & to other grains - Stigma highly plumose & projects [illeg] calyx. - A True wind flower.
Dichogam.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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