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To Gardeners’ Chronicle   [before 10 February 1866]

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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?"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [before 10 Feb 1866]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 10 February 1866, p. 127
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5001

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