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'

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

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.


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