RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.09.12. Cabbage / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.11.34. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2023. 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-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
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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
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