RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].06.07-10. Erytherina crista-galli / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.2.27-28. (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 5.2023. 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-DAR209.2 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, p. 380.


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Erytherina crista-galli (not marked) June 7

10. 20'   ⨀ first mark (has risen much

11. 20   much up ( light?)

12. 5    more up

 1. 30      now down

 3°   little to right

 4°   so much down, as to be hardly visible

 5 .   too low to read

 7°   15 perpendicular down not marked

June 8th

Used

6° 40'

8.  up considerably

9    down

10   up considerably

10. 15    angles up

11. 15   same spot

11. 32    up

12. 12    down

 1°   considerably down

 2. 5   far down, almost out of sight

 2. 55    risen tremendously

 3. 45    enormous way down (hardly seen)

4. 50 perpendicularly  down

9th ⨀ 6° 45

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perfect flowers. He finds in the nest of Termites in Brazil males and females with imperfect wings, which do not leave the nests and propagate the species in a cleistogene manner, but only if a fully developed queen after swarming does not

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Erytherina June 9th

6. 45 ⨀ slided pot, same dot,

8 30 far down

8 40   risen

9° 9   down

10°   down

10 . 35 a little up & to left

11°  up. considerably

11. 18   down

11. 50   down

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12 40    a bit up

1. 35   much lower

2°   15     do

              little movement

   due to too

little light?

3. 5   too low to mark

4°   do

6°. 5   I believe risen a bit

7. 12    far lower

6. 55' am 10th. (have fallen perpendicular down)

Leaf 3 1/2 in from glass         Used

Pt 23 inches high

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Left observed 3 3/4 long

including thickened joint.

Terminl Leaflet

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gained, we can understand the co-existence in many flowers of structures which appear at first sight unnecessarily complex and of an opposed nature. We can thus understand the great contrast between Cleistogene flowers which are adapted exclusively for


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