Meanings of legitimate fertilisation in English

The dotted lines with arrows show which pollen must be carried to the stigmas for legitimate fertilisation.)

For the full and legitimate fertilisation of these plants pollen from the one form must be applied to the stigma of another.

This confirms my suspicion that some of the few capsules produced by the foregoing seventeen short-styled plants were the product of accidental legitimate fertilisation.

The flowers in this case as in the last are capable of spontaneous legitimate fertilisation, and are rather more productive than ordinary flowers legitimately fertilised.