RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1863-1865. Rye not Stony Field [numbers of seed in different years] / Proof sheet of Orchids. CUL-DAR109.A40. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. 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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Rye not Stony field
Perhaps first give — to a given case
A ♀ 1863 "some som fruit" not [counted]
— (old A) 1864 — 9 fruit
— 1865 97 fruit
B (old D) 1863 "covered with fruit"
1864 "28 fruit
1865 — innumerable vy fine fruit
E / C} 1863 no fruit
F/ D} (old B) 1864 not one
G / E} 1865 do
F (old C) 1863 no fruit
1864 do
(c) 1865 92 fruit mostly poor see average p 7,
G old E 1863 about 2 dozen poor
1864 3 fruit, very imperfect, each with only 1 seed m/w of 3
(D) 1865 20 poor fruit
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[Proof sheet of Orchids, p. 109, published pp. 261-2]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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