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
4°
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 —
6°
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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