RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1862.04.10-.07.03. Monochætum ensiferum. CUL-DAR205.8.31. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 4.2022. 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-DAR205.8 contains notes on the genus Monochaetum and other plants.
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Monochætum ensiferum
April 10 – 62 Black Cotton. V222 good seeds.
(May 3d 3 pods ripe white thread)
May 3d White cotton thread V603 good seed.
do White cotton thread V546 do
do White thread V320 do
May 4th Black cotton thread V207 do
- 5 White woollen V564 do
- 9 Black woollen V574 very fine seeds
8 Black silk (possibly some lost) 30 (innumerable bud)
- White thread V136
- do V542
10 Black thread V374 – (might have been the old flower)
13 White thread – V344
- Black worsted – V 452
- White Silk – V445
- White wool – V537
- White wool – V518
15-22 Black wool V324
do White silk V157
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May 17-20 White wool – V558
- White wool – V550
- Black wool – V317
- Black w. – V61
- Black w. – V563
May 25. White silk (ie Bobbin) V.109
On Jun 25 planted seeds black & white wool. (ie straight-styled state by both pollen) on cotton in water & both generated equally this day July 3d. – ie 7-8 days. –
There is drawing & remarks on flowers under Heterocentron.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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