RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878?].06.14-16. Glaucium luteum / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.214. (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).
Notes for Movement in plants. Text F1325. Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 374-5.
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Glaucium luteum
14 '
9° 30'
10° 10' down to left
11. 35 atom to left & down
12 50 up & to right
2° up to level of start
3° 10' up & to right short way
4. 30 up & to left
6. 5 up & little to left
7° 20 up.
9·' 5 up straight
10· 45 a little up
Apex 5 1/2 inch
15' 6° 50'
8° 5 down to right
9. 23 down
10 · 33 down, & to left little
12 up & to left
1° to right short way
2° 5 a little up & to left
3 up on the original down line well
4° up same spot
5 · same general spot
6 a little up & to left
7' up to by figure 4
9 considerably up
10 35 up & to left
6 older true leaves & 1 younger
Leaf with petiole 3 inches long
hardly any stem as yet developed
16' 6° 50 greatly down 16·
8° 30 down & to left
16
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present the rare case of their flowers being dingy or having obscurely coloured. or dingy flowers.
The storage of a supply of nectar in a protected place is manifestly related to connected with the visits of insects. So is the position which the stamens and pistils occupy, either permanently or through their own movements at the proper time, period, they invariably stand [text excised] the pathway leading to the nectary.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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