RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.05.19-21. Strawberry Stolons / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.197. (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, p. 342.


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Strawberry Stolons darkness

May 19th

   Left Hand reversed

Right longer horizontal refixed filament behind growing point

8° a.m

8   57   far to right

10 far up & to right

11° 10   up & to right

12.   down      Used

1 ·     same course

2      up   & to left

3      down

5 10    up

6°   up

7. 20   up & to right  

9. 20

10 35    2°· 21  red

 3° lower small dot

 4°    do   .   do

 5. 10    up

 6·

 7· 20   to right horizontal

   9. 20

   10. 35

20th

6° 45   jammed

    Right Hand long. & Horizontal

Left Hand — altered position so as to brng on glass.

8°   a.m.

8   57   vertically down far

10   up & to left

11° 10   far to left & almost horizontal

12.   down      travelled down

1°     down Used    

2°      up

3°  —     4.5 of inch

 up & down

   extra movement

4·   gone down on old line

5  10 —

7°  20

9 . 20

10 · 35 +

4 time up &  

5 time down  

bends 4 more  

or 13 true Lines  

6° . 45'

    from 8° a m to 1

20th M

  Left Hand   20th May

6.  55     red & Blue

8°      to left & red

9 . 12

10. 5  up

11

12    down.   & red

1°   down & to right

2° a little up on old line

    no red not marked

3°   to left, red marked

4° 15      do

5 · 15    same spot

 6    to right   no red

7° 17  to left   no red

8 . 25  last mark red & black

     for touches paper

21'  

   about

Used

 

  Right

6°  55    Red & blue

8°   a little down

9. 12

10. 5   up

11

12  —      down  — (&  red dot)

1°   little up  

2°   up ·

3    down             from 6. 55'

   to 4. 15

   .45 of inch 

4. 15   down   (red- dot)

5  15       up ·    no red

6·     move up a little

7°. 17'   down

8. 25   a little to left

9. 30   up.

11°   curved in to centre   (no red)

6° 45     . ⎼⎼  thus marked

8°   down & red mark

   about 5 time up & down

              from 6. 55' on   20·

    to 8° on 21

.82 of inch      Used

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(a) text

(The Self-sterility differs much in degree of in different plants. In those extraordinary cases in which pollen from the same flower acts on the stigma like a poison, it is almost certain that the plants would never yield a single self-fertilised seed. Other

(B Text)

The majority of species, as may be seen in Table F, are in some degree less fertile with their own pollen than with that of another plant; though some species are perfectly self-fertile. Even with the individuals of the same species, as has just been remarked, some are utterly self-sterile, others moderately so, & some perfectly self-sterile. The proximate cause of plants being sterile with their own pollen though in very various degrees,


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