RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Decaisne, Comptes-Rendus (July 1863). CUL-DAR79.98. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. 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).
Joseph Decaisne, 1863. De la variabilité dans l'espèce du Poirier; résultat d'expériences faites au Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de 1853 à 1862 inclusivement. Comptes-Rendus (6 July): 6-17.
Darwin gave the wrong page number, it is actually p. 10.
[98]
Decaisne, Comptes Rendus July 6' 1863
p. 5. says the Pied d' Alouette (Larkspur) are fertilised by own pollen long before expanding & hence the different vars. cannot cross & are true.—
Dichogamy
[Cross and self fertilisation, p. 129: "Delphinium consolida. It has been said in the case of this plant, as of so many others, that the flowers are fertilised in the bud, and that distinct plants or varieties can never naturally intercross.†
† Decaisne 'Comptes-Rendus' July 1863 page 5."]
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