RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1865. Mitchella repens. CUL-DAR110.B93. 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).

B93

Mitchella repens 1865

The long form kept under separate nets.

Long-styled (marked by stick)

by pollen of short-styled white thread ///////// 9

by own pollen black thread //////// 8

Short-styled

by pollen of long-styled white thread //////// (8

by own pollen black – thread ///////// (9

Mark each couple of flowers when crossed by pencil park tie thread round stem. Clean pincers.—

Look with lens to see pollen on stigma.

In one pot long & short-styled plants grow together & in this can white & black wool was used for long-styled.

B93v

Pairs of Umber longstyled conclusion for 1864 & 1865

[calculations not transcribed]

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