RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1866. Common Primrose / Long-styled / Short-styled. CUL-DAR110.A6. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. 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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1866    Common Primrose

(Mark with stick long-styled plants

Long-styled     Clean pollen

8 flowers by pollen of short-styled common Oxlip fert / self fert

(Waited for Oxlips) White wool ////////

8 fl by pollen of long-styled Bardfield Oxlip

Black wool //////// 25 (9sed)

Short-styled Clean off own pollen     self

8 fl by pollen of long-styled common Oxlip

White wool ////////

[some words and figures not transcribed]

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