RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878?].06.25-28. Echeveria stolonifera / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.185-186. (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, pp. 396-7.
[185]
Echeveria
25. 8° 20' a.m
9 · 20 down a little
10° . 40'
12° down
1° to left
2. 8' down
3° . 3 an atom lower
4° dot lower & to right
6' down & to left
8 to right.
10 · 15 up & to left— I think accurate
26th
6 . 45 to left
6° 45 slided Pot
9° to right
10 down & to left
11· 18 up
12° 30 up .
2° much up
3 up
4. do
6 · up
8. 15 up
10 . 10 up
27th 6° 45·
8 an atom to right
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purpurea [text excised]
height its self-fertilised opponent until the sixth generation; and so it was with Mimulus lutens until the fourth generation. Out of six pairs of crossed and self-fertilised cabbages, every one of the former was
[186]
Echeveria
27° 8° a m
10' a little down & to right
do 11. 30 do
1° same course
risen 2. 50
up . 4 . 35
down 6 & to left
8° 30 to right
10 .15 up & to right
6° 50
8° 45
15
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Chap. E 10
other plants were affected, for they grew much more vigorously than the self-fertilised seedlings of from the Ragged Jack planted at the same time and under the same conditions. Secondly, I placed on several stigmas of a long-styled
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