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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.05.28. Draft of Cross and self-fertilisation, table B. CUL-DAR209.12.29. 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-DAR209.12 contain material for Darwin's book Movement in plants. The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 244.

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(Table B.)

(Relative weights of plants from parents crossed with pollen from distinct plant of the same stock ~~of the same stock crossed~~

Names of Plants ~~& nature of the approximate~~

number of crossed plants

number of self-fertilised plants

Weight of crossed plants taken as 100

Ipomoea purpurea: plants of the 10th generation

Vandellia nummularifolia 1s gen.

Brassica oleracea do

Eschscholtzia californica: plants of the 2d generation

Reseda lutea: 1st gen. grown in pots

─ ─ ─ ─ in open ground

Reseda odorata: 1st gen. described from a highly self-fertile plant: ~~grow~~ grown in pots

~~─ ─~~

─ ─ do do do from a semi self-fertile plant do grown in ~~open~~ ~~ground~~ pots

Dianthus caryophyllus: plant of the 3d generation

Petunia violacea: plants of the 5th generation: in pots

─ ─ do do in open ground

as 100 to 44

─ ─ 97

─ ─ 37

─ ─ 118

─ ─ 21

─ ─ 40

─ ─ 67

─ ─ 99

─ ─ 49

─ ─ 22

─ ─ 36

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)