RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. [ny].04.13-24. Oxalis carnosa / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.11.72. (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). The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 335.
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Oxalis carnosa — Pod
(When pod ripen peduncle & not joint bend upwards—
Coats or ovarium like silver-paper. seeds exploded)
19th 4° 40' P.m — a very little below Horizontal
5° 10' risen a little
5 40' a little down
6 30' nearly same position
7° 20' new dot more magnified & more to one side
8. 38 same place
10. 30 do
6°. 45' fallen— Ap 20.
8 10' down lines not connected
9. 10. down & to right
10 17' do — same line
11. 25 red spot
12.25 Black do
1. 22 do
2. 12'
3°
4° 10'
5. 5'
6° a little to the left on level with last dot
7° 15 depressed side last dot
8°. 30'
9 30
10 45 stuck at little dot
21' 6° 45' ⨀
8. 15 on ring
8 35 new dot slewed pot round
9. 15. to right & down
10 20 moved very little: I doubt about last dot
11° by new dot for by accident rubbed out all up to 8° 35 but all near each other
[right hand column]
21st
12° fallen a bit
1 do
2° do
3. do
4. an atom fallen
5. down
6. down— little
7'. 15
9°
10 20'
22d. 6° 45' am large dot
(When pod ripe peduncle & not joint bend upwards— Coats of ovarim like Silver-paper. seeds exploded)
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*I am much obliged to Mr Moore & to Prof. Thiselton Dyer for giving me information with respect to the varieties on which I experimented. Mr Moore believes that Senecio ementuscruentas, tussilaginis, & perhaps heritieri, maderensis, & populifolius have all been more or less blended together in our Cinerarias.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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