RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Naudin, Revue Des Cucurbitacées, Annales Des Sciences Naturelles Bot. CUL-DAR45.81. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2022. RN1
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 volume CUL-DAR45 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 4 'Variation under nature'.
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Annales des Sc. Nat 4th Ser. Bot. Tom. 12. 1859.
p. 105. M. Naudin describes the seeds of Citrullus vulgaris from the deserts of Caffraria, as varying prodigiously, so that one might easily suppose that they belonged to different species. There are white, black, red, yellow green &c — some smooth & shining, the others rough & dull — some had no margin, others surrounded by a thicker ridge. Some of their seeds closely resembled those of the Benincasa ↘
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others hardly differed from the seeds of the Colocinth,— others were so like the seeds of the melon, that they would not have been known to have been different except from the plants produced by their seeds. —
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