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Forms of flowers

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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…

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  • … works. He closed by asking Darwin to study the case of Viola since several species had perfect …
  • … suggestion to study the small unopened flowers of Viola . His observations contradicted the …
  • … were the small apetalous unopened flowers, like those of Viola , that Bentham had pointed out …

Movement in Plants

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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…

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  • … to Müller, ‘ Very many thanks for the seeds of the Viola; by an odd chance, I have just raised …

Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…

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  • … flowers on the same plant, as in some  Oxalis  and  Viola species, had interested Darwin since …
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