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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Self-fertilisation Orchis or Neotinea intacta. CUL-DAR70.167. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. 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-DAR70 contains material for Darwin's book Orchids (2d ed. 1877).

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Self-fertilisation

Orchis or Neotinea intacta.

Ophrys apifera - no case stronger than theory this I describe in the 2d Edition.

Gymnadenia tridentata

Platanthera hyperborea

Epipactis viridiflora

Cephalanthera grandiflora

Neottia nidus avis

Several Epidendreæ & Dendrobiums but some of these very regularly s. fertilised.

Dendrobium cretaceum

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[3 words illeg] wd endure as long as other sp [2 words illeg] , cannot be told. O. apifera is a [illeg] species & can hold its own on [illeg]

or whether it wd [illeg] to the [illeg] , when it once assuredly had. That [3 words illeg] we know from O. acropera.

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)