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


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18th

close at base

Pancratium littorale

Jun 18th

10° 50'   first dot

11. 35   up & to left

12. 40    up & to left

1. 37   down & to right

2 25     very little up

3° 7    down & to left

4°   up an atom

5     down, little & to right

6° 5     to left & up

  some confusion

7. 15     down   

9°  marked with dot atom

10.  35    dot with

19th 6° 40'   ⨀

     8. 15

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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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Pancratium

19'  8°  15    new dot   slided pot

 9°  25   hardy move a little up & to right

10  43    down

12    down & little to right

 1. 30   to right & down

3.    5    to right, horizontally little down

 4. 30   short way same course

 5.  45'    very short way to left & down

 7°  12    down & to right

 8  52    down & to left

 9. 45     up & to left

 10. 45    dow on old lin  

 20'    6° . 35'      ⨀

      8  · 10

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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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