RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1865. Long-styled / Wild Oxlips / Common Primrose / Common Cowslip. CUL-DAR108.20. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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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Wild Oxlips— 1865

(Long-styled.)

6 flowers with own pollen Black thread 111111 (done) (Used)

6 flowers with pollen of short-styled oxlip White Thread   111111 (done)

Common Primrose by pollen of same form of wild Oxlip. (16 flowers.)

Black wool 8 flowers Long-styled by pollen of long-styled oxlip done 11111111 8 done

Black wool Short-styled 8 flowers by pollen of short-styled Oxlip—11111111 (done)

Common Cowslip by pollen of same form of wild oxlip (16 flowers)

Black wool.

(N.B. Sh Long-stick means long-styled)


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