RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1875-1876]. Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR64.2.88v. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2023. 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-DAR64 contains material for Earthworms, experiments on worms; different locales & photographs and cuttings from journals.
Draft in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 147.
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in flower on the following spring were nine inches in height; one of the self-fertilised plants was eight, and the three others only 3 inches in height, so that they were being thus mere dwarfs. The two crossed plants produced 13 pods, (& four of them, however, the product of a cross between the two plants) whilst the four self-fertilised plants produced only a single pod one. Some other self-fertilised plants which had been grown raised separately in larger pots produced under a net several spontaneously
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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