RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1863-1864] Mid-styled (castrated) / Short-styled Lythrum under net / Short-styled. CUL-DAR27.2.B39-B43. 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.


[39]

Mid-styled (castrated) Fertilise some branch with fresh pollen

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[39v]

a few were fresh fertilised without castration & have bit of purple worsted tied to thread

[40]

Short-styled Lythrum under net 1864 counted

Plant E

Black silk 56 ✓ — long-styled Heteromorphic a

do 88 ✓

do 112 ✓

do 111 ✓

do — 62 ✓

do — 100 ✓

White silk 23 ✓ long-stamen of long-styled

do do 14 ✓

(Plant D short-styled)

Black worsted — 69 ✓ — mid-styled heteromorph

do — 69 ✓

Self-fertilised — 30

Black worsted — 53 ✓

Black thread — 21 ✓ own yellow pollen of shorter stamen

Black wool — 9 ✓

Black thread — 9 ✓

[41]

Short-styled castrated

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[42]

Short-styled Devon Plant— covered under separate net.—

Black Wool — (1) 93

Black Silk X 69

Not fertilised 20 —{very poor seeds, shrivelled, I doubt whether one is good

do — 6 = {

Black Silk X 61

Black Wool (2) 77

Black Silk X 88

Black Cotton or S 64 — {I have no doubt I crossed by mistake

Black Silk X 66

Black Wool (4) 43

Two branches with all flower fertilised with own pollens set not one pod.—

[43]

Long-styled, castrated

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[43v]

July 31 63. under Net

I have marked

long-styled 3 string

Mid styled 2 string

Short-styled 1 string.—

(134 flowers crossed this year)

Of Homomorphic seedlings — 3 long-styled now in flower, (with (other plants now all cut down—) marked white worsted.

One Homomorphic mid-styled also thus marked.

Now whether the other flowers & are visited by Bees, they will be a now heteromorphic cross of Homomorphic seedlings


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