RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1870-1870]. Draft of Cross and self fertilisation or `Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic and trimorphic plants. CUL-DAR53.2.133. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2025. 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-DAR53.2 contains drafts, notes & clippings for Darwin's book The expression of the emotions (1872) and notes to correct a further edition.
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& would thus carrying [illeg] flower & would effect an union between two distinct flowers. This fact is conclusively shown in all those many cases in which the pollinia undergo a change of position, after removal from their proper position the rostellum, in order to acquire stand in a proper direction to be left on the another strike the stigma; for this could only be effected after
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the insect had left [illeg] one flower , which would serve as the male, & before it visited another a second flower which would serve as the female.)
—(in a vast majority of cases)
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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