RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.06.11-13. Oxalis Valdiviana / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation.CUL-DAR209.14.98. (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 draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 379.


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Ox. Valdiviana

Left Hand Leaf

Right-Hand leaf

June 11'           June 11th   

10º 45    disturbed       10. 45    disturbed

11º 12    down 11. 12    to left

11. 55    far down        11. 55.    down

12. 55    far up 12. 55    far up

1. 57    very little up   1. 57    to right & far down

3º    up 3º    up

4'    a little to right only an atom        4º    a little down

5º 10    to left  5 . 10    down

6. 7    to right on level            6 7    up.

7º 18'    down  7º 18    far down

9º    far below glass    9º    far below glass            

10. 30    very almost perpendicular    10. 30    almost perpendicular

(Used)

(Used)

From 11º. to 6º circumnutate

Must rise very Early in morning

after 6º 50' in morning falling

12'

12th

6º. 50   6º 50

8º 45    a little to left  8º 45'    far down

10 15    down  10. 25    far down

11 . 13    up     11. 13    up

12. 12    same spot      12. 12    up & to right little

1º    down        1º    nearly same spot

2º    to left horizontally, on dotted line          2 —    up same course

3º 5'    down short way thick line       3º. 5    to right horizontally.

4º    down rather more            4º    up a little & to left

5    down & to left      5.    up a little & to left

6.    down        6    down

7. 15    vertically down           7º 15    vertically down

13

            From 11º to about 5'

⨀ 6º. 50          13th 6º 50 ⨀

   8º. 15               8º. 15

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a laughable idea that pollen should be brought from flowers of the same species, none of which grew nearer than between 500 and 600 yards.*(b) The result was that 289 of these 520 flowers yielded no seed, or seed that did not germinate; the seed of 29 flowers produced hybrids, such as might have been expected from the nature of the pollen employed; and lastly, the seed of the remaining 202 flowers produced perfectly pure plants, so that these flowers must have been fertilised by pollen brought by insects from a distance of between 500 and 600 yards.*(c) It is of course possible that some of these 202 flowers may might have been fertilised by pollen left accidentally in them when they were castrated; but to show


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