RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. In Primula auricula the long-styled form instead of being more fertile. CUL-DAR111.B11. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. 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 volume CUL-DAR111 contains notes on illegitimate progeny of dimorphic and trimorphic plants for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).
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In Primula auricula the short long-styled form instead of being more sterile fertile (when illegitimately fert) than the long short-style, as in by other species is more fertile sterile in the ratio of 100 to 119 to 100!
Yet the pistil towers so high above own anther in the long-styled, as to be very little liable to self-fertilisation, as I shd. think
(It wd be good to measure distance in the 2 forms)
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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