RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1857.05.29. Ch 3 / The common Broom where the long pistil is bowed into a circle. CUL-DAR76.B53. 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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May 29 / 57/ [sketch] Ch 3
In common Broom, where the long pistil is bowed into almost a circle in a vertical plane the Bee, dusted all over of brightest orange from pollen alights on middle & whilst inserting proboscis the slan pistil curls over its back & rubs the hairy surface, coloured of bright orange from profusion of pollen.
A great many plants are 1/2 dichogamous ie half pollen shed before stigma ready as in Fraxinella
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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