From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 10 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 10 February 1866, p. 127
Summary:
Asks botanical readers to inform him "whether in those monoecious or dioecious plants, in which the flowers are widely different, it has ever been observed that half the flower, or only a segment of it, has been of one sex and the other half or segment of the opposite sex, in the same manner as so frequently occurs with insects?"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project