RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Duck's seedling equal styled / long-styled (numbers of seeds). CUL-DAR108.134. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe. RN1
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 volumes CUL-DAR108-111 contain material for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).
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Duck's Seedling
Equal styled
45 [+] (one with 6 omitted) [+] 23—min [+] 24 [+] 47 [+] 61—max [+] 46 [+] 56 [+] 53 [=] 355 [÷] 8 [=] 44.4 average seed
Long-styled
34 [+] 15 [+] 41 [+] one with 7 & one with 0 omitted [+] 34 [+] 61—max [+] 26 [+] 25 [+] 20—min. [=] 256 [÷] 8 [=] 31.7 average
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Horwoods 4 Plants kept in my Greenhouse— midstyled — self-fertilise — produced 180 pods, & then I examined 30, of which only 3 produced no seed: Hence. average
950 [÷] 27 [=] 35.5
But if all beneath 14 be omitted (I chose this by chance from results of 1863) we have this average
950 - 56 [=] 894 [÷] 21 [=] 42.5 average
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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