RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878.08].30-.09.07. Trifolium repens / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 770. CUL-DAR209.3.37. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN1
NOTE: 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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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
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