RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.07.02-04. Pontederia / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, p. 393. CUL-DAR209.3.286. 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 a footnote in Cross and self fertilisation, p. 393. Darwin had earlier cited the same article in Variation 1: 325.
Anon. 1855. Turnips. Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (3 November): 29-30.
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July 2d Pontederia young vertical Leaf [sketch]
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A writer in the Gardeners' Chronicle (1855 p. 730) says that he planted a bed of turnips (Brassica rapa) and of rape (B. napus) close together, and sowed the seeds of the former. The result was that scarcely one seedling was true to its kind, and several closely resembled rape.
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