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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.06.11-13. Oxalis Plumieri / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 657. CUL-DAR209.14.91. (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-DAR209.14 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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Oxalis Kew

Jun 11

10. 45 disturbed

11. 12 little up

11. 55 up & to left

12 55 vertically up

1 57 a little up

3° up.

4' do

5. 10 up

6. 7 down & to left

7. 18 down

9° far below

10 30 perpendicular [sketch]

6° 50' am started perpendicularly down

8. 40' has now come on glass & has risen greatly

10. 15 risen

11. 12 up

12 12 up little

1° do

2° a little to right & down

3 5 same course short distance

4° .do do

5 down

6 down

7. 15 almost vertically down

13'

6° 50 ⨀

8' 15

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Chap. E 10

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

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