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[illeg] Illegitimate Lythrum seedlings

Mid-styled self-fertilised

X 11 mid st       Dwarfist

12 mid-styled 1865 not contabescent
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Short-styled self-fertilised

13 short-styled. (1 anther contabescent)            (8 short-styled 1 long-styled)

X 14 long-styled 0 x 15 short st

16 short st      [two erased passages, encircled]

17 short-styled (1865) (Dwarfist) not contabescent

18 short-styled (1865)

19 short-styled

20 short-styled – (many anthers contabescent)

21 short-styled (some anthers contabescent)
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Short-styled  by pollen of long stamens of Long-styled

(Class IV)

22 long st.

23 long st

24 short-styled

25 short-styled (1865) – longer stamen yellow & contabescent. All longer stamens & many of shorter on whole plant contabescent.—

26 short-styled 1865) (some contabescent)

X 27 short-styled 0 x (1866. Pollen of both sets perfectly good.)     (8 short-styled   4 long-styled)

28 short-styled

29 short-styled

X 30 long-styled 0 x (1866 Hardly any bad grain in either set & to few which did not swell, not minute of [illeg])

31 short st. (1866 pollen of longer & shorter stamens perfectly good)                  Perhaps little dwarf

32 short st

33 long st (1866 a moderate number of minute shrivelled grains in both sets of stamens)
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Mid-styled  by pollen of long-stamens of short-styled

34 long-styled 1

35 long st. 2

36 short-styled (1865) curl up to see what flowers

37 short set 2

38 short st 3

39 mid-styled (1)                                    Not Dwarf

40 short st 4

41 long st 3.

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Darwin defined the term contabescent as used in these notes: "anthers were either shrivelled…without any good pollen-grains…in the state designated by Gärtner as contabescent, which term I will for the future use." Forms of flowers, pp. 192-3.

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Plants 7, 8, & 10 have some anthers contabescent

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Carried on Mid-styled by pollen of long stamens of short-styled

42 short st

43 short st. 6

X 44 mid-styled 0 (2)

45 mid st (3)                                    All used finally

X 46 short st. 0 7

47 mid st. (4)

48 long st 4

49 long st. 8

50 long st  (5)

51 long st. 5

52 short-styled 9

53 mid st. (6)

54 long-styled (1865) 7

55 short st 10

56 long st 8

57 long-styled 9

58 long st. 11

59 long st. 12

60 long st. 10

61 mid st. (7)

62 long st. 11

63 long st. 12

64 long-styled (1865.) 12

65 short-styled (do) 13

66 short-styled (do) 14

67 short st 15

68

69 long st (13)

70 short-styled – 1865 16

71 mid st (8)

72 long st. 14

73 short st 17

74? long st (18)

 

I believe (All right.)

18 long-styled

14 long-styled

8 mid-styled

40

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I abstracted results of the fertility of the progeny illegitamate plants when legitimately fertilised, generally by all as described were each experiment.

Exper X             Are excluded for these both that th cover illegitimately fertilised

Standard fertility

[c.4 words illeg] / Forms / Average number of seed produced / Maximum number / Minimum number / Percentage of seed, relating to the usual standard

Standard             long-styled

Standard

Class I

Excess I

             II

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Mid-styled by pollen of short-stamen of long-styled

(Class V) [3 words in pencil erased] Pollen

X 75 mid-styled 0 x

76 mid st.

X (77) mid st. 0

X 78 long st. 0 x

X 79 long-styled 0

80 long st

81 long-styled

82 mid st.

83 long-styled

84 mid st.

85 long st.

86 long st.

87 mid st.

88 long st.

89 long-styled.

90 long st

91 mid st.

92 mid st

93 long st                                                         not dwarf

94 long-styled. (1865)

95 (accidentally not done) long-styled 1865

96 long st

97 long st

98 long st

99 long st

(8 mid-styled
17 long-styled
25)

25 Plants

25

 

25
2
37

 

4

 

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Long-styled self-fertilised Potato Field.

100 long st

101 long st

102 long st

X 103 long st

X 104 long st

105 long st

106 long st

107 long st

X 108 long st 0 x

109 long-st. (1865)  —some rather contabescent

110 long-st. –(1865)

111 long st

112 Long-styled (1866)                                               (1866 & grew tall much slower in spring)

113 -long st.

114 long st.

115 long st.

116 long st.

117 long st.

118 long st

119 long st.

120 long-sty – (1865)                    Decidedly Dwarf      & flower later than others) as do all self-fertilised seedlings

121 long-st. (do) Many anther contabescent

122 long-sty – (1865) (6 of stamen contabescent)

123 long-styled. Long-styled (1865)

124 long-styled (some anther contabescent)

125 long-sty 1865 many anther contabescent

126 long st.

128. long st 1865

29 Plants (but one not yet observed included in 29)

8 Plants in first lot                    } All long-styled.

18 19 Plants in lot of 1866—       do   do    do

55 Plants altogether.

56 (1867)

 

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Darwin defined the term contabescent as used in these notes: "anthers were either shrivelled…without any good pollen-grains…in the state designated by Gärtner as contabescent, which term I will for the future use." Forms of flowers, pp. 192-3.