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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Gärtner, Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich, etc. CUL-DAR205.7.257. 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-DAR205.7 contains notes on hybridism, sterility and pigeons.

Gärtner, Karl Friedrich von. 1849. Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich. Mit Hinweisung auf die ähnlichen Erscheinungen im Thierreiche, ganz umgearbeitete und sehr vermehrte Ausgabe der von der Königlich holländischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart.

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Gaertner Bastard

97 species of same genus absolutely sterile together

126 so with genera p 174 on same subject of like & very unlike species

~~140 Silene always failed, though so close~~

~~195, 197 do~~

~~147. N. acuminata, nearly related yet not neither fecundate or be fecundated.~~

189 gradation in effect when different pollen put on stigma

~~194 on close relation between fertility of 1' cross & of Hybrids~~

232 He experimented as much a possible on wild Plants

256 case of Hybrid taking most closely after one parent. — [illeg] ~~(Resemblance)~~

307 in crossing Verbascum either colour given pure. Species or vars? Turnip & Swede not intermediate.

~~366~~ 397~~} Hybrids variable in fertility from same Capsule~~

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420 sterility of Hybrids increasing even in 2d Generation

470. Revisions to parent form seldom in wild than cultivated Plants

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