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

 

Total number of offspring

Number of long-styled offspring

Number of short-styled offspring

Primula veris, long-styled form fertilised by ova—from pollen during successive generations, produced  }

162

156

6

  —   — short-styled form by own-form pollen —

14

5

9

Primula vulgaris, long-styled form fertilised by own-form pollen successive generations, produced }

69

69

0

Primula auricula, short-styled form fertilised by own-form pollen is said to produce during successive generations in about following }

100?

25?

75?

 —   — long-styled form fert. by own-form pollen (Hildebrand)

17

14

3

 —   —  short-styled form fert. by own-form pollen —

25

1

24

Pulmonaria officinalis, long-styled form by own-form pollen —

11

11

0

Polygonum fagopyrum, long-styled form fert. by own-form pollen

49

45

4

 —   —  , from short-styled form fert. by own-form pollen

33

13

20

 

Table

Nature of the Offspring from Trimorphic plants illegitimately fertilised.    Trimorphic plants.

Total number of offspring

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 —

56

56

0

0

 —   —  , 4 mid-styled form fert. by own form pollen shortest stamens longest

4

1

3

0

 —   —  , 5 fert by pollen of shortest stamen of long-styled

25

17

8

0

 —  x — x — 2 short-styled form fert. by own-form pollen mid longest styled

9

1

0

8

 —   —  3 — - fert. by pollen of mid-length stamen of long styled form
[the marks in blue crayon are not transcribed]

12

4

0

8

(— — 6 mid-styled form fertilised by pollen from longest stamens of short styled

40

14

8

18)

Oxalis valdiviana, long-styled form legitimately fertilised with pollen from longest stamens of mid-styled

 

 

 

 

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

 


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