RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.09.12. Cabbage / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.11.34. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 7.2023. RN2
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-DAR209.11 contains material for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880). Draft in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 2.
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Sept 12th Cabbage much bowed downwards through Heliotropism placed horizontally so that apogeotropism shd counteract
8°. 30' beneath Horizon
9° rising still out of sight (partially etiolated)
9.' 20' first dot →
10 . 5 up
10. 34 do
10. 51 up & little to left
11. 10 greatly up. ,accelerated force rising with
11. 23' do
11. 41 far up
11. 57 up & a little to right
12. 20' down & to right. yet Hypo far from vertical
12 52 far down.
1. 22 down & to left circumnutating
2. 5 up & to left.
51 [-] 12 [=] 39
2. 55 up & to right
4. 3 down
5 to left
6 to Right
Hypocoty 2 1/2 inch High
7. 15 much risen.
8. 5 to left & little down
8 50 straight down
Pot 14° above Horizon
9. 40 to right.
10. 40 up thick line
13' 6° 45'
7° 28'
Basal part not bent
7 58 up & to right
8. 20'
32° from vertical
rose 17° [+?] 20° [+?] 16 [=?] 51°
Movement exaggerated
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which they is thus transported to other flowers. Again there is a class in which the ovules absolutely refuse to be fertilised by pollen from the same flower plant, but can be fertilised by pollen from any other individual of the same species. There are also very many other plants species which are partially sterile with their own pollen. Lastly there is a large class, in which the flowers present no apparent obstacle of any kind to self-fertilisation, nevertheless
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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