RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Table / Nature of the offspring from illegitimately fertilised Dimorphic Plants. CUL-DAR111.B33. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2026. 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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Table
Offspring of Nature of the offspring from illegitimately fertilised Dimorphic Plants
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Number of long-styled offspring |
Number of short-styled offspring |
Primula veris, long-styled form fertilised by ova—from pollen during successive generations, produced } |
|
156 |
6 |
— — short-styled form by own-form pollen — |
|
5 |
9 |
Primula vulgaris, long-styled form fertilised by own-form pollen successive generations, produced } |
|
69 |
0 |
Primula auricula, short-styled form fertilised by own-form pollen is said to produce during successive generations in about following } |
|
25? |
75? |
— — long-styled form fert. by own-form pollen (Hildebrand) |
|
14 |
3 |
— — short-styled form fert. by own-form pollen — |
|
1 |
24 |
Pulmonaria officinalis, long-styled form by own-form pollen — |
|
11 |
0 |
Polygonum fagopyrum, long-styled form fert. by own-form pollen |
|
45 |
4 |
— — , from short-styled form fert. by own-form pollen |
|
13 |
20 |
Table |
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Nature of the Offspring from |
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number of long-styled offspring |
number of mid-styled offspring |
number of short-styled offspring. |
1 Lythrum salicaria, long-styled form [illegitimate[?] erased] fert. by own-form pollen — |
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56 |
0 |
0 |
— — , 4 mid-styled form fert. by own form pollen |
|
1 |
3 |
0 |
— — , 5 fert by pollen of shortest stamen of long-styled |
|
17 |
8 |
0 |
— x — x — 2 short-styled form fert. by own-form pollen |
|
1 |
0 |
8 |
— — 3 — - fert. by pollen of mid-length stamen of long styled form |
|
4 |
0 |
8 |
(— — 6 |
|
14 |
8 |
18) |
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|
|
|
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Oxalis rosea, long-styled form. fert. During several generations by own-form pollen } |
100? |
100 |
0 |
0 |
Oxalis hedysaroides, mid-styled form fert. by own form pollen |
17 |
0 |
17 |
0 |
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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