RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [8-13.10.1875]. Long-styled — wild / 2d lot a plant which grew in clump with others. CUL-DAR27.2.B55-B56. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. 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.

Darwin was in Southampton from 7-20 October 1875 as shown in the itinerary of Darwin in Paul van Helvert and John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021.


B55

Long-styled — wild

Southampton; 2d lot, a plant which grew in clump with others

94

100

96

98

81

[calculations not transcribed]

(93.1 average. (this is fair average)

B56

Short-styled. Wild Southampton

Oct 8th & 13th

1 — 102

2 — 91

3 — 49

4 — 86

5 — 77

6 — 61

7 — 111

8 — 96

9 — 89

10 — 74

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(83.5 average seed per pod. 


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