RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878?].06.02-06. Petunia violacea / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.269. 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, p. 357.
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Petunia violacea Jun 2d to 6th
Fig. 141.
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periods,─ heterostyled dimorphic [text excised]
many mechanical contrivances,─ the more or less complete inefficiency of pollen from the same flower on the stigma,—and the prepotency of pollen from any other individual over that from the same flower plant. Some of these points require further consideration; but for full details on most of them I must refer the reader to the several excellent works and memoirs mentioned in the introduction. I will in the first place give two lists; of plants, arranged in most respects according to Vegetable Kingdon and compiled from the previous tables, but with some cases added from my own observations and those of others─ ; the first list including plants which
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