RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1866. Short-styled common oxlip. CUL-DAR108.24a. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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 volumes CUL-DAR108-111 contain material for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).


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These results are not worked into my Paper

Short-styled Common oxlip 1866

8 fl legi by pollen of l long-seed Cowslip White Thread ||||||||    (0000 0000) — Result

8 fl illegm by pollen shored Cowslip Black Thread ||||||||    (0000 0000) — Result

(Used)

8 fl by pollen of long-seed Primrose White wool (||||||||| =8 / 8 poor /    omihese    during we (done)  Black Thread |||||||| =8 (20. fine [+] 5 poor [+] 10 do [+] 19 fine [+] 24 fine [=] 84) → 8 fl were fert

8 fl by pollen of shored Primrose Black wool |||||||| during wet = 8 (done) white Thread  |||||||| = 8

/ 5 12. /    Counll se 6 flowers. = 2/16 sen s illegitimate union  average seed 8.5

8 fl were fert Legitimately by pollen from long-styled Primrose & produced 5/8 pods, but in two of them the seed were poor ─ the 3 pods with good seed had averaged of 20 [+] 19 [+] 19 [+] 24 [=] 63/3 (21.0 seed per pod.

Under the net, neither short nor long-styled set one single Pod─


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