RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.06.02-06. Pinus pinaster / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 615. CUL-DAR209.3.19-20. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. 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 on Circumnutation of leaves and hyponasty 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. 357-8.


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Epinasty

Pinus pinaster

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Epinastic downwards

(Pinus pinaster; describing movement of young leaf on a young plant in a pot, decr the epinasty, traced on vertical glass under skylight, from 6'45 am Jun 2d to 10.40 P.m June 6th.)

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4 615

Chap. E 10

they include a considerable number of species belonging to the same genera, some of which were are quite sterile and others quite sterile when thus protected by a net from the access of insects.

List of plants, which when insects are excluded, are quite sterile, or produce, as far as I could judge, less than half the number of seeds produced by unprotected plants.

Passiflora alata, racemosa, cærulea, edulis, laurifolia, and some individuals of P. quadrangularis (Passifloraceæ) are quite sterile: see Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Chap XVLL 2nd Edit Vol. II p. 118.

Viola canina (Violaceæ), perfect flowers quite sterile unless fertilised by bees or artificially fertilised.

V. tricolor (do), sets very few and poor capsules.

Reseda odorata (Resedaceæ) some individuals quite sterile.

R. lutea, (do) some individuals produce very few and poor capsules.


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