RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878?].06.14-16. Pelargonium zonale / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 651. CUL-DAR209.3.256. (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, p. 374.


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Geranium zonale 14th

14th

  9° 30'

10°. 10'   down & to left

11. 35    atom up & to right

12   50     down & to right

  2° up   

  3. 10     up

  4. 30     up & to left

  6. 5     down  

  7° 15  

 

between 10° & 4°. 30' 

  2 20   up

  9. 5' down straight

  10. 45.    vertically down

15th

  6°. 50

  8° 5  down to right

  9   23     short way down

  10. 35   to right   

  12   to left  

apex of leaf. 11½ inches

 

   1°   to right

   2. 5     in middle of muddle

   3°         do

   4°   an atom lower

between 10° & 6°

   5    do

   6     same spot

   7'     do

   9°   little up & to left

10. 35   little up & to left

 

6° 50    up —  16th     2°   up

8° 30     to left   3   down

10·15    up.        4°  30   little to right

10 35   up & to left       6°  a little down.

 12°   up              8· 30   considerably down.  

12.55  to left & down   10·35   same spot

  17th

  6° 45

  8. 30  up

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fertilised by cresp crepuscular or nocturnal insects often emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening. Some flowers, however, which are highly odoriferous depend solely on this quality for their fertilisation, such as the night-flowering stock (Hesperis) and some species of Daphne; and these plants


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