RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.05. Nephrodium molle / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.242. 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 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, p. 349.
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Nephrodium May 1878
Left Hand young fr
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(thirdly; : the plants of Nicotiana which I cultivated
come under the came head with the present class of cases; ask gia
varied in their sexual constitution, and were all m
self-fertile. They were probably, descended the offspring of from plan
been self- spontaneously fertilised themselves under glass for several generations in this country
on the parent-plants which were first fertilised with i
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