RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1863.05. Chinese Primrose / Table of observations. CUL-DAR108.54. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed 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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Chinese Primrose May 1863
C. good seed.
unfertilised. 23
do
White Bobbin 21 ✔ good
Black Thread 21 ✔ good
do 25 ✔ goodish
White thread 53 ✔ very fine
Black threa 45 ✔ very fine
White bobbin 42 ✔ do
Black Thread 0 ✔ do
do 20 ✔ fine
Black do 51 ✔ very fine
White. Thread 55 ✔ do
White Thread 38 ✔ fine
White Bobbin 54 ✔ very fine
White wool 69 ✔ moderate
White thread 54 ✔ finish
do 33 ✔ very fine
White Bobbin 20 ✔ fine
Black worsted 36 ✔ poorish
White thread 55 ✔ pretty good
Black thread 23 ✔ very fine
Black wool 25 ✔ fine
White thread 0 ✔
Black wool 0 ✔
White Bobbin 55 ✔ very fine
Black Thread. 31 ✔
White Thread 60 ✔ smallish
Black wool 62 ✔ smallish
Black wool 53 ✔
White wool 36 ✔
Black thread 14 ✔
Black thread 22 ✔
Black thread 19 ✔
Black wool 0 ✔
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C. are homo. seedling plants (from no 3 long-styled by own pollen) crossed homomorphically: they were all long-styled: they are Grandchildren of first hom. union of long-styled; both generations homomorphically crossed.
(CC the same, but one plant had pistil rather shorter)
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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