RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny][.06].18-20. Pancratium littorale / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 694. CUL-DAR209.3.250-251. 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, pp. 376-77.

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lose none of their pollen by the open flowers on the same plants; and yet this small quantity produced by them which suffices for the fertilisation of all their numerous seeds, in comparison with that produced in astonishing

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Geum urbanum, however, according to Gärtner, the pollen is only ten times too much.*(a) (*(a) Kölreuter Vorlaufige Nachricht 1761 p. 9. Gärtner, Beitrage zur Kenntniss &c. p. 346. As we thus see that the open state of all ordinary flowers, and the consequent loss of much pollen, thus

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