RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Nature of offspring. CUL-DAR111.B25. 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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Nature of offspring. p 19 Long-styled 56 Plants
M.S.
p. 193. short-styled from own shortest stamens
8 short-styled 1 long-styled,
p 194 mid-styled from own longest stamens
3 mid-styled 1 long-styled
p 195. from short-styled by mid-length stamen of long-styled
8 short-styled 4 long-styled
p. 197 from mid-styled by shortest stamens of long-styled
8 mid-styled 17 long-styled
p 198 From mid-styled by longest stamens of short-styled (the most fertile of illeg. unions)
18 short-styled, 14 log-styled, 8 mid-styled
18 [+] 14 [+] 8 [=] 40
General Conclusion
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It will be very interesting to observe, as I believe to be the case that the offspring from the more sterile union believe the pistil & stamens which differ most in length as the more sterile.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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