RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. n.d. Germination of seeds. CUL-DAR77.51. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2023. 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 volumes CUL-DAR 76-79 contain material for Darwin's book Cross and self fertilisation (1876).


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Germination of Seeds

55 p. 55 Earlier Germination of lighter seeds of Ipomœa 3d gen [illeg]

68 Ipomœa 8th gen. — Self-fert. germinated first, nothing said of weigh & seeds unusually small from unhealthy plants

76 ― Cross between 2 fl on same plant increased number of seeds as 100 to per capsule in ratio of but these were lighter than the few s.f. seeds in ratio of 86 s. f: 100

Mimulus crosses & s-fert seeds germinated at same time.

p. 139. many self-fert. seed (Mimulus luteus) germinated before those of intercrossed & Chelsea— crossed

p. 168 Verbascum thapsus crossed seedlings generally came up first)

217. Badis & [illeg] Eschscholtzia. more self-fert seeds of Brazilian stock germinated before the intercrossed & crossed by fresh stock seed

265 Dianths car: experiment book many of London-crossed seed germ, before intercrossed & self-fert, & intercrossed (by a crossed plant) later than other 2 lots

274 Pelargonium zonale. "s.f. seeds germinated rather before the crossed."

281. Longinus luteus — seeds sown. 2 lots s.f. came up between 1 & 3 days before crossed.

304. Lathyrus odoratus (2d. gen.) many of s-fert plant germinated before crossed.

308 ― S. fert seeds from s-fert plant germ before s. fert, seed from crossed plants

333 Apium petroselinum as nearly all the s.f. seeds germinated before crossed seeds. plants 100 : 100

342. Lobelia ramosa 1' gen some crossed seeds came up before s-fert.

343 ― (2d gen,) many many of crossed germ on sand before s-fert.

364. Petunia (first gen) Many self fert seeds germinated first

365 ― (2nd gen) ― ditto ― ditto ―

399. Nicotiana (2nd gen) Many of the crossed seeds germ: first.

409 ― Many of these crossed plants germinated before self.

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