RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny].04.13-24. Oxalis carnosa / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 584. CUL-DAR209.11.73. 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. 336.
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Flower-peduncle Descent of Oxalis carnosa
Ap 19th Evening to morning of Ap. 22d
Fig 219
same scale: no lettering, except capital letters A, B. C to the 3 figures which are in on sense distinct
(Attend to several broken lines)
(See Back)
(These 3 figures must hold exactly same relative as here, for thy are in fact all one figure, but observations were temporarily interrupted so must not be joined)
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(Fourteen flowers on B were crossed with pollen from A, C, or D, and all produced capsule; some of these were not very fine they contained plenty of seeds. Eighteen flowers were fertilised with pollen from other flowers on the same plant & produced not one capsules.)
(Ten flowers on C were crossed with pollen from A, B, D or E, and produced nine fine capsules. Nineteen flowers were fertilised with pollen from other flowers on the same plant & produced no capsules.)
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