RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1866.06.24. Dichogamy / No one doubts that flowers are formed to produce seeds. CUL-DAR76.B102. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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 volumes CUL-DAR 76-79 contain material for Darwin's book Cross and self fertilisation (1876).
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Dichogamy June 24 /66/
No one doubts that flowers are pr formed to produce seeds, & they do not doubt this in the least though the Acores (see Phytologist) & Ivy & see Planchon for some water-plant & some mosses rarely or never yield seed — So I do not doubt that flowers are expressly formed so as to receive an occasional cross, though some few at present seem so constructed or constituted as never to be crossed. Such plants may be looked at like those which are propagated by buds.—
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