RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].03.20. Oats / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.11.7. 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. 37.
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Oats March 20th
several degrees below Horizon.
some other species rose much better & were parallel to each in pot ie. had risen above 90°
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of the crossed survived. The tallest of these when measured was 47 inches in height; whilst the tallest of the two surviving self fertilised plants was only 32 inches. Here again we see how much more vigorous the crossed plants are than the self-fertilised.
Crossed and self-fertilised plants of the seventh generation.— (Ipomoea purpurea). These were raised as heretofore with the following result.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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