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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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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