RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny].04.13-24. Oxalis carnosa / Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation, published pp. 143 & 130. CUL-DAR209.11.68-69. 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).


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Ap 13th Horizontal glasses— illuminated feebly from above.

Saxifrage flowers nearly expanded— straw & paper

Oxalis carnosa— flower— when set turn abruptly down by joint

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[68v]

[Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation (bottom half), published p. 143.]

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Ap. 16th Oxalis carnosa— Vertical glass— illuminated feebly from above

Left Hand. the same old flower as before withered with main peduncle secured secured (one pod deflexed (no others)

Right Hand straw fixed to main peduncle— one flower half withered, 2 pods deflexed (no others) on main peduncle

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[69v]

[Proof sheet of Cross and self fertilisation (bottom half), published p. 130.]


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