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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1861
Source of text:
DAR 109: 82–3, DAR 110 (ser. 2): 117, DAR 111: 83
Summary:

Notes several cases of "dioecio-dimorphism" in different genera; feels the discovery of pollen that will act only on the pistil of another flower is most important. Believes CD should next turn his attention to investigating cases of "precocious fertilisation".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 117
Summary:

Orchid anatomy: movement in Mormodes column.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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