RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Long-styled / large Hartfield plant produced innumerable flowers. CUL-DAR27.2.B34. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. RN1
NOTE: Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The folder CUL-DAR27.2 contains notes for and the draft of Darwin's paper 'On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria'. 1864-5. F1731.
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Long-styled at Down Garden: large Hartfield plant produced innumerable flower, but self-fertilised produced only as follows
pods.— seeds
1 — 3
2 — 6
3 — 4 some very doubtful good
4 — 0
(5 — 43 + 4 good seeds pod probably fertilise)
6 — 7
7 — 10
8 — 22
[total] 52 [-] 49 [=] 3 0 / 7 [=] 7.4 per pod. mostly very poor seed
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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