Gärtner allein hat 30 derartige Versuche mit Pflanzen aus den Geschlechtern: Aquilegia, Dianthus, Geum, Lavatera, Lychnis, Malva, Nicotiana und Oenothera durchgeführt.
Gärtner alone has performed 30 experiments of this kind with plants from the genera Aquilegia, Dianthus, Geum, Lavatera, Lychnis, Malva, Nicotiana and Oenothera.
Gärtner alone = Gärtner allein Sherwood has “himself”, we follow Bateson’s translation. The emphasis here is on the number of experiments carried out, not on the fact that Gärtner carried out these experiments without help from others (in that case it would have had to be alleine). For Gärtner’s own discussion of these experiments, see Carl Friedrich Gärtner, Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (Stuttgart: Hering, 1849), p. 463–474. All eight genera that Mendel mentions appear in a list of “transformations that we performed” (Umwandlungen, die wir durchgeführt haben) that precedes Gärtner’s discussion. On Gärtner, see p. 3, s. 4.
Aquilegia, Dianthus, Geum, Lavatera See p. 40, s. 7.
Lychnis Campion or catchfly, a genus of the family Caryophyllaceae.
Malva Mallow.
Nicotiana Tobacco.
Oenothera Evening primrose.