RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. [ny] [.07.?]13. Smithia pfundii / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.24. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN2

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR209.3 contains materials on Circumnutation of leaves and hyponasty for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).

The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and selffertilisation, p. 425.

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Smithia pfundii Right Hand

 13th 9º 40' am. far down — straw not touching

10. 30 to left & down

12º up considerably

1. 30 do — little to Rt

2. 55 far down— very oblique→ — so. greatly exaggerated

4 too low to see

5 4'

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Delphinium. In the course of fifteen minutes a single flower on the summit of one a plant of Oenothera was visited eight times by several humble-bees, and I followed the last of these bees whilst it visited in the course of a few additional minutes every plant & the Oenothera same species in a large flower garden. In fifteen minutes a tuft of five flowers of Eschscholtzia was


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