RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1868.06. [Note on Ophrys aranifera.] CUL-DAR70.63. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. 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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June 1868 George went up Stony Valley for Bee orchises & found sixty flowers with both pollen-masses in anthers; twenty three flowers with both pollen masses on stigma; & 8 flowers with one pollen mass on stigma. I examined 9 plants & so John Wood found 15 flowers had both pollen masses in anther; 8 with both on stigma; & two with one on stigma. Hence it
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is clear that something in the seasons checks the pollinia falling out of anthers.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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