RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].06.10-13. Erithrina corollodendron / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 660. CUL-DAR209.2.31-32. (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. 381.


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Erithrina [Erythrina] Corollodendron June 10th

June 10'  11. 35

  12°     50

  1° 40     up & to right

  2  40    down strong

  3 6'    down

  3 53    very little way down

  5°   down to right & up, short way

  6.  15     down

  7.  20.   down

}

  9°  up !  { plant not asleep put in Hot House

  11 50.   down very doubtful so oblique

            ??

11th . 6.° 40' up ̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲

  8. 15   up.

  9   vertically down

  9° 55 ​ up..

  10. 37   down

  11. 10    up.

  11. 53      little up

  12. 55       do.

  1. 55    down .

  3   down on old line

  4°   up to old top- point

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Used  

  5°. 10     down

  6. 7      down a good way

 7. 18    far down

  9     low down, nearly out of vision.

  10.30   very steep

12

  6°    50'

  8. 35   much risen

  9. 12   risen

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660

Chap. E 10

closed, never display brightly coloured petals, which are these being more or less rudimentary, never secrete nectar, never are odoriferous, have very small anthers which produce only a few grains of pollen, with stigmas but little developed. Bearing in mind that some flowers, called anemophilous by Delpino, are crossed fertilised by the

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Erithrina [Erythrina] corollodendron continued

12th

    10 .12     up

    10 . 27 up

    10 45   up

    11. 15         up

    12   10        up

    1°      up

    2°     little up

    3. 5     do

     4°      a little down

      5      down a good way

       6      down

        7° 15   down

         9. 5   far down

10. 45   too low to record

13

6° 50'  ⨀

8. 15

Used

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656

Chap. E 10

distance, may here be notice. well deserve attention.* This facts are is best shown by the impossibility in many cases of raising two varieties of the same species pure, if they growing at all near together; but to this subject I shall hereafter return; also by the many cases of hybrids which have appeared spontaneously both in gardens and a state of nature With [text excised]


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