RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.06.11-13. Oxalis Plumieri / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 657. CUL-DAR209.14.91. 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 drafts corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 378-9.
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plants of the same species.*(a) The following case shows this in the clearest manner: Gärtner, before he had gained any experience, castrated and fertilised 520 flowers on various species with pollen of other genera and other species, but left them unprotected; for, as he says, he thought it
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