RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1864.04. Mid-styled Plant C. CUL-DAR27.2.B52. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed 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.
B52
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
B52a
The pods fertilise homomorphically were on plant B
B52v
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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