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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878.06].27-30. Mimosa pudica / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 683. CUL-DAR209.2.131-132. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. 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-DAR209.2 contains materials on circumnutation of leaves and stems 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, pp. 394 & 395.

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variability and intercrossing; but I have collected evidence on the natural ~~offspring~~ crossing of varieties of the tulip, hyacinth, anemone, ranunculus, strawberry, leptosiphon androsaceus, orange, rhododendron and rhubarb,

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favour of plants of the same variety intercrossing; & it is in chief part owing to this circumstance, that certain villages have become famous for pure seed of particular varieties.*) (*With respect to Messrs. Sharp,

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