RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. The long-styled flowers greatly preponderated. CUL-DAR111.B24. 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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The long-styled flowers greatly preponderated in these 18 plants; 61 consisting of this form; 15 of the equal-sized; & 9 of the short-styled form.)

[Forms of flowers, p. 272, n.: "Herr Breitenbach found many specimens of Primula elatior growing in a state of nature with some flowers on the same plant long-styled, others short-styled and others equal-styled; and the long-styled form greatly preponderated in number; there being 61 of this form to 9 of the short-styled and 15 of the equal-styled."]


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