The Works of Charles Darwin
Subtitle: The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom (Darwin, Charles//Works of Charles Darwin)
Contributors: Charles Darwin (Editor); Paul H. Barrett (Editor); R. B. Freeman (Editor)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: May 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780814718230
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Genetics (non-medical); Science; Plant Genetics; Pollination; Variation; Life Sciences - Botany; EVOLUTION; NATURAL HISTORY; Science / Evolution; Plants
First sentence: THERE is weighty and abundant evidence that the flowers of most kinds of plants are constructed so as to be occasionally or habitually cross-fertilised by pollen from another flower, produced either by the same plant, or generally, as we shall hereafter see reason to believe, by a distinct plant.