RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Asperula scoperia from Van Diemens Land / Draft of Descent, vol. 2,"Fishes Ch 12", folio 20, fair copy. CUL-DAR109.A45. 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).
Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Descent 2: 21.
[A45]
from Van Diemens land
Asperula scoperia ♂ ♀fl with very small upper almost rudimentary rudimentary anther apparently with no pollen & large ovary ♂ flower with large anther very minute ovary & only a vestige of stigmas & no style.─
(Rubiaceæ)
(Useful when I discuss passage of Heterostyl with diœcious plants.)
(Same tribe as Galium)
Thyme Chapter
[A45v]
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22
Chap. 12 Fishes.
"mud, over which they sit, as our Pomotis does. It ought also "not to be overlooked observed that these sitters are among the brightest species in their respective families; for instance, Hygrogonus is bright green, with large black ocelli, encircled with the most brilliant red."
Whether with all the species in this family it is the male which sits on the eggs I do is not known. Anyhow It is, however, manifest that the habit of fact of the parents of one or both sexes or of one sex leaving the eggs quite or of leaving them unprotected, or of
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