RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1864. Wild Oxlips long-styled & short-styled potted early in 1864. CUL-DAR108.25. 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 long-styled & short-styled, potted early in 1864 from wood; (parents of the seedling primrose-oxlips in K. Garden)
White thread, fertilised by other form of Primrose. = 16
Short styled 1864 8
White worsted fertilised by other form of Cowslip. = 16
Black thread, one oxlip fertilised by other form of other oxlip. (= 14)
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Black worsted oxlip fertilised by pollen of own flower. — (= 14)
One plant long-styled & this labelled; all the others short-styled.— & the short-styled are not labelled. Used
Primrose
Longstyled Black thread own pollen 111111
Short-styled Black thread own pollen 111111
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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