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From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 166
Summary:

Sends specimens of Boronia.

Discusses the section on diclinous trees and herbs in CD’s new book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 411–13]. CD’s theory that diclinism preceded hermaphroditism seems confirmed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 167
Summary:

Believes Aegiphila to be exclusively American.

Contrasts fertilisation of Australian Acacia with Brazilian Mimosa.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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