The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].06.07-09. Drosera rotundifolia / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, 2d ed. CUL-DAR209.3.175-176. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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-DAR209.3 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.

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Drosera young leaf tents close

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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]

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

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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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