RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. 1878.07.02-04.  Sarracenia purpurea / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.295. (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).

The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 419.


[295]

Sarracenia purpurea

July 2d

 6° 40'

8°   up & to left

9'   down & to right

10   to left

  11   a little   down

  12.     do.     do

  1° a little down & to left

  2    an atom down

  3°    an atom up down

  4°    a little down

  5    up (but this leaf was freed from other leaf 1° ago)

  6    almost same spot little to right

  7.  15    atom down

  8° 50   up & to right

  10. 35   back & to left

  3d 6 48         8° gone back & up

   8'  12    new dot more magnified

   9°   down & to right

   10. 5    to right & little up

   11. 5      do      do

   12 .     down

   1°    up & to left

   2°    down on old line

  3   8      up

  4°·   to right & down (dot on angle  

     see sketch

   5 . 15   up ·

   6 . 12   not marked

   7 . 15    to left.

  8 .  50    nearly same spot

8°    50     good way to left

10 . 40     risen greatly

4th  6°  45  

    8· 30'   to right & down

   10 . 15   to right

[296]

[Others fragments of this are at CUL-DAR209.3.289 and CUL-DAR209.3.289.317-319]

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