RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1875-1876]. Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, p. 353. CUL-DAR53.2.156. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. 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.


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of the above species, it is remarkable that in ten out of the sixteen cases the self-fertilised seeds were either superior or equal to the crossed in weight.

[insertion:] [several words illeg] This superiority in most of the self-fert seeds may be partly accounted for in part by the self-


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