RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.05.19-21. Strawberry Stolons / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.197. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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 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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(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
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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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