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
12º 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
10º 50' up.
11th 6º 40 down.
8º 15 down & to left
9º — 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
3º an atom up
4º — in same general place
5. 10 up
6º 7 up
7. 18 up
9 considerably up
10 30' to right & up
12th
6º 50
8º 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]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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