RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878.08].30-.09.07. Trifolium repens / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 770. CUL-DAR209.3.37. (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 11.2022. 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. 449.
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Trifolium repens
Aug 30' Aug 30
11° .a.m new dot
2. 5 down
4. 35 down & to left
5. 45 same spot
8. 50' an atom up (or filament bit below horizontal
10. 45 little up
31' 6° 40 ⨀....
Sept. 1' 8° 45 dot joined by dotted line to yesterday
Sept 2d 6° 40 risen ⨀ . . . .
Sept 3d 6° 45 ⊡
Sept 4' 4° 40 ⊡
5 . 7° am 6° 50' .⊡
8. 40 down
10 7' to right left & down
11. 13 to R— little & down
12' same spot
1. 55 atom to R.
4° little to right
5. 55 little up.
10. 30' down
6th 6° 40' —X thus marked
9° 30' up
12 in middle not joined
7th 6° 40' square by itself rather lower
Sept 1'. 9° a.m tied upside down another flower Head— (now upper) withered
flower (unfertilised)— Horizontal
8th 6° 45'
Used
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(627 770
Ch. XII
Gen. Con.
of double flowers & of fruit as in the case of the melons is thus influenced. Seeds moreover which have been matured during different seasons will have been subjected during their whole course of their development to having different degrees of heat & moisture.
It was shown in the last chapter that pollen is often carried by insects to a considerable distance from plant to plant. Therefore one of the parents or ancestors of the parent our two plants
[text excised] distant.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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