RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].06.10-11. Canna warscewiczii / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.93. (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 on Circumnutation of leaves and hyponasty 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. 381.


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Canna Warsce

June 10 11. 35

Tip of leaf 9 inches from glass

12° 50

1 . 40 to left & down

2' 40 down & to left

3 . 6 same course

3. 53 up & to right

5 down

6 15 a little up & to left

7. 20 a little up

9  up

10° 50' up.

11th 6° 40 down.

  8° 15 down & to left

9° — to left & down

9. 55  down & to right

10 . 38  down & to left

11. 10  little down & to right

11. 53  up little, on old line

12. 55  down on from position

1. 55  a little to left

3°  an atom up

4°  — in same general place

5. 10  up

6° 7  up

7. 18  up

9 considerably  up

 

10 30' to right & up

 

12th

6° 50

8° 40 down

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Bottom of marks

 

 

Leaf 8 inches long 3½ broad

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wind, and others called entomophilous, by insects, we can further understand, as was pointed out by me several years ago* (*Journal of Linn. Soc. Vol. VIII. Bot. 1863, p. 77) the great contrast in appearance between these two classes of flowers. Anemophilous flowers resemble in many respects the cleistogene flowers, but differ widely in not being closed in produc [bottom of page excised]


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