RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Laws of Variation White Candy-tuft. CUL-DAR47.55. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR47 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 7 'Laws of Variation'.
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Laws of Variation
White Candy-tuft
Iberis amara ─ I grew some plants in sand & became astonishingly dwarfed — Each plant produced only 1 or 2 flowers, sage not flowering at same time, at top of stem, but the petals of these flowers were as unequal as in flower of circumference of crowded umbel— Hence if inequality at all connected with want of space, the effect is now inherited.—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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