RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].06.07-09. Drosera rotundifolia / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, 2d ed. CUL-DAR209.3.175-176. (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 12.2022. 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-DAR209.3 contains materials 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, 2d ed., pp. 380 and 382.


[175]

Drosera young leaf tents close

June 7th 9º 15 O

10: 20' up

11 20 up

12º 5 do

1. 30 far up

3º to left & down

4 down, parallel to up line

5 rises risen again. & to left

6. 7' same course

7' 15 down & to right

9º far up

10. 45 up & to right.

 

June 8th

Used

 

6º 40

8. down (tentacles still closed

9' do a little

10º up.

11 . 15 up

11 . 32 up. much

12 . 12 up & to left

1º down

2. 5 further down

2 .55 same spot

3 45 still down

4. 55 do.

6º do

6. 30' — up

7. 15 down. little

9º down & to right

10. 40' up

 

9th 6º. 45

  8. 30

many t. projecting at right angles

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[fragment only]

* page 48

Fritz Müller has discovered, (Jenaische Zeitsch. B. IV. p. 451) (in the animal kingdom) a case curiously analogous with this to that of plants bearing cleistogamic and perfect [text excised]

[176]

Drosera June 9th new, old leaf Horizontal (disturbed)

9º 12' first mark

10º not moved

10º 35' new dot more magnified

11. 35 to left & down

12. 40 an atom down

1. 35 almost same spot

2. 15    do

3. 5.    do

4º an atom down dot

6º 5 an atom to right & down

7. 12 little lower

10. 40'    do

Used

 

10th

 

6º 55' marked ⨀

slided Pot 10th

 

6º 55' 7º A.m C. of ammonia

8 8º 5' risen & to right, may be evaporated & loss of weight

9º risen & to right most glands blackened & many closing inflated.

9º 260 a little to left

10. 15  an atom up & to right

11. 30  up.

12 50  up much

1. 40  up

2 40  up

3.6   down & to left

3 53  down & to right

5º   up & to right

6. 15  up & to left

7 20'  to left & down, this marked —

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self-fertilisation, and ordinary flowers which are adapted so as to allow of at least occasional cross-fertilisation; the two thirds of flowers being produced by the same plant.* The former are always minute, completely


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