From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 7 Dec 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 149
Summary:
Considers some flowers especially adapted for self-fertilisation, and believes all flowers are self-fertilising under some conditions. Gives examples of plants in which he believes all flowers are cleistogamous. Believes self-fertilisation is the primordial condition of flowering plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project