To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 10 February 1866]1
Will any of your botanical readers have the kindness to inform me, whether in those monœcious or diœcious 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;2 in the same manner as so frequently occurs with insects?3
Charles Darwin
Footnotes
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?"
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5001
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Gardeners’ Chronicle
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 10 February 1866, p. 127
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5001,” accessed on 20 February 2019, http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/DCP-LETT-5001
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14