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Equal-styled Red Cowslips April. 14 / 66

Notes

Short-styled Plant no. 41 has now become very long-styled, but with stamens placed as before the stigma is rough & depressed as in true long-styled. —

No. 39 short-styled is still a short-styled plant — the stigma is smooth & in shape like an inverted cone & so different [sketch] from both forms.— but us considerably longer than in short-styled. Stamens in both 41 & 39 stand as in short-styled form.—

No. 26. In form of stigma, position & length of stamen & of pistil is truly a long-styled form.

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No 40 stigma stands just below stamens, is rough but hardly so much depressed at apex as in true long-styled— stamens stand of course as in true short-styled.— This was in same state last year & is called equal-styled.

No. 28 last year was equal-styled, with stigma a little below anthers; now stands far above stigma very rough & of proper shape of long-styled.—

It is clear that these mid-styled & many short-styled forms, combine pistils & stamens of both forms.

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1866 Red-equal-styled C. was short-styled in Plant 41. se 1865 — now in 66 now has stigma quite above anthers! (see description of stigma)

Produced spont. an abundance of pods as when fert by pollen of short-styled cowslip yielded 53.0 seed per pod the pistil is clearly long-styled. — Plant excessively fertile, which perhaps account for pollen of long-styled cowslip giving 24.4 seed.

The self-fertile flower, giving only 35.1 seed Last year gave 35.6 seed when short-styled instead of 53.0 perhaps partly accounted for by not getting sufficiency of own pollen. either is its short- or long-styled state— Own pollen perhaps probably not so good as that of Cowslip.

Instead of lumping results, as in Conclusions from last year reconsider each plant separately, they are so variable.

Plant 39 far less fertile; & appears like from 1866 true short-styled form, but cannot be so from great considerable self-fertility— Perhaps accident that so

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few pods were produced from short-styled pollen.

Perhaps rendered equally susceptible to both kinds of pollen. —

I can clearly see each plant must be separately considered, as they differ so much in fertility — I think none are so self-fertile as with pollen of cowslip. — I think mere accident the cases in which plant was more self-fertile than with its own pollen.— Was own pollen taken from same flower?? No from other plants I certainly infer from table

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Red Equal-styled Cowslip (1866)

Plant no. 39 8 fl White Thread 8 fl. by pollen of long-styled common cowslip 11111111

8 fl. Black-Thread 8 fl. by pollen of short-styled common cowslip 11111111

No. 41 White Thread 8 fl. by pollen of long-styled common cowslip 11111111

Black Thread 8 fl. by pollen of short-styled common cowslip. 11111111

Clean short-styled from own pollen.—