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.


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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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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

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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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