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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Leighton, On the gland of the Phyllodium of Acacia magnifica. CUL-DAR76.B137. 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).

Leighton. W. A. 1865. On the gland of the Phyllodium of Acacia magnifica. Annals and magazine of natural history 16, series 3: 12-15.

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do. Vol XVI. 1865 p. 14

*(10) phyllodium of Acacia secreting nectar

Annal & Mag of Nat Hist

see next page for contents— of foot-note

[Cross and self fertilisation, p. 405: "It further appears probable from the observations of the Reverend W.A. Leighton, that the fluid so abundantly secreted by glands on the phyllodia of the Australian Acacia magnifica, which stand near the flowers, is connected with their fertilisation.‡
‡ 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' volume xvi. 1865 page 14."]

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