RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1864.04. Mid-styled Plant C. CUL-DAR27.2.B52. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe. RN2
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library & 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.
B52a
Mid-styled Plant C April 1864
Self-fertile — 30 ✓
Self-fert — 18 ✓
Black wool — 104 ✓ — short st. of short-styled
do — 109 ✓
Self-fert — 16 ✓
Black silk — 44 ✓ short stam. of long-styled
White silk — 122 ✓
Self fert — 13 ✓
do — 3 ✓
Black silk — 44 ✓
do — 45 ✓
White silk 50 ✓
Black silk 12 ✓
――(B)
White silk — 151. ✓ (white purled wool attached by accident)
White wool — 132 ✓ green pollen of short styled
do — 86 ✓ do
Black wool — 143 ✓
White silk — 119 ✓ — (with purple wool )
Black wool — 124 ✓
30 [+] 18 [+] 10 [+] 13 [+] 3 [=] 74 [÷] 5 [=] 14.8
B52av
The pods fertilise homomorphically were on plant B.
B52b
Mid-styled continued Plant B 1864
White silk — 138 ✓
White wool — 113 ✓
do — 29 ✓
do — 17 ✓
Black wool — 145 ✓
do — 12 ✓
White wool — 113 ✓
do — 79 ✓
White thread 136 ✓
Whit wool 128 ✓
Black silk — 19 ✓ purple wool
Black wool 141 ✓
Self-fert 0 seeds
Black silk 85 ✓ many small seed
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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