RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].06.26-28. Oxalis bupleurifolia / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 684 & fragment. CUL-DAR209.14.79-80. 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-DAR209.14 contains material for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880). Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 395.
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Oxalis bupleurifolia (Leaflet)
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Chap. E 10
Gardeners' Chronicle, 1856 p. 823. Lindley's Theory of Horticulture, p. 319.)
Only two trials were made to ascertain after low long an interval of time, pollen taken from a [text excised] would obliterate [text excised] completely the
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Oxalis bupleurifolia (Petiole like a phyllodium)
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distinct variety prevents more or less completely [the] action of a plant's own pollen. from acting. The stigmas in two lately expanded flowers on a variety of cabbage, called Ragged Jack, were well covered with pollen from the same plant. After an interval of 23 hours, pollen from the early Barnes Cabbage growing at a distance was
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