RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Loasa Herbertii (a Hybrid). CUL-DAR157.1.55. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 4.2023. RN1

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The volumes CUL-DAR157.1-2 contain notes, abstracts etc. for Darwin's long paper and later book Climbing plants (1865). It was also commercially available as a softbound offprint, F834, F834a. See R. B. Freeman's bibliographical introduction. Items CUL-DAR157.1.11-60 were in a folder marked "Twiners". Items CUL-DAR157.1.61-112 were in a folder marked "Leaf-climbers" and items CUL-DAR157.1.114-147 were in a folder marked "Tendrils". Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.


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Loasa Herbertii (= a Hybrid) Of 9 plants, all but 3 twined in opposite direction, & petiole of lea opposite leaves reversed in each case as point d' appui or point of resistance for opposition of spire. —

[Climbing plants, p. 20.]


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