[B21]

Oxalis speciosa 1866 & General Summary

Long-styled

Legitimate Het. union by sho long-stamen of short-styled.

9/13 set, & yielded on average 55.0 seed per pod

add from 1867

0 60 61 49 29} 1866 old Plants

52 65 1866 young plant

0 0 0 65 48 66} 1865

Illegitimate union with shorter stamen of short-styled 5/12 set & yielded on average 30.0 seed per pod

32 0 41 0 26 0 21 0 30 0} old plant 1866

Illegitimate U. with own form longer stamen; distinct Plant 2/9 set & yielded average of 42.5 seed per capsule.

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 41} old plant 1866

Illegitimate U. with own-form shorter stamens distinct plant 0/7 set ie none set

[B22]

Long-styled continued — During 1865 I crossed 6 flowers with both own pollen & got 3 pods: these were plainly smaller than pods from Legitimate U. but seed was lost from all but one & this contained 45 seed; so apparently application of both pollens favourable, or season very favourable, for proportion of pods which set & average number of seed.—

Short-styled – young Plant 1866

2 flowers fertilised Legitimately by pollen of short-stamen of long-styled, produced 2 capsules with 69 & 78 seed.

5 fl fert by own longer stamen yielded 1 capsule with only 8 seed— 3 flowers with shorter pollen of shorter did not set. (But these shorter stamens are so close to stigma, that they get incidentally self-fertilised, yet on many plants with many flowers not one capsule was evert produced—)

(Also 2 fl. were fert. illegitimately by pollen of large stamen of long-styled & did not set.—

[B22v]

The scraps are only of all from size of pollen-grain.—