CUL-Dar84.2.157    abstract:    [1876][.02.24.after]   Barrington D `Phil Trans' 1773: 164

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [74] Dec. 24th 10°- to 11° A.m [sketch] In cooler Hot-House where plants long kept, in nearly the same position with respect to light tube 2 out; eye-piece object glass 2 inches micrometer. 1/100 used. n each division = 1/500 of inch times of transit over 1 division 0.55 seconds 0.65 [do] 1.45 [do] 2.40 [do] 1.20 [do] 0.40 [do] LD [Leonard Darwin] Mimosa marginata [74v

A719.01    Beagle Library:     Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1795-6. Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia, performed between the years 1770 and 1779. 4 vols. London: W. Richardson and J. Egerton. vol. 1.   Text

cultivation of medicinal plants for the cattle, and furnished with a little hot-house. The apothecary's shop too was very handsome. Those who boarded here paid twenty livres per month. [page] 5

CUL-DAR66.59-77    Note:    [Undated]   [Bloom continued] [notes on plants cleaned with damp sponge; application   Text   Image

Hot-House Fern June 1' 9˚ A.m. — cleaned bloom off space near mid-rib put some drops of purest water— in advance of white wool Also put drops of do. (in advance of black wool) on space with good bloom. — June 4th. 9˚. A.m removed the drops of the 2 lots, (which had of course been renewed several times) which were very nearly equal in amount. evaporated them in glass plates. There was much more matter in water which had rested on cleaned surface this was of a darker pale yellowish-brown tint

CUL-DAR53.2.112    Note:    [Undated]   The diurnal periodic movements which lead to sleep are easily disturbed,   Text   Image

The diurnal periodic movements which lead to sleep are easily disturbed, too great cold stops them - too much light (as with Oxalis purple-leaved in Hot House Mimosa pudica) agitation many or most leaves. Especially light, same as Tropaeolum must have been exposed during previous day to a good deal of light: N.B the circumnutation of tendrils twiners (see to this) stopped by agitation by cold dryness. The leaves being specially adapted to turn to light are especially affected by light excess

CUL-DAR60.1.97    Note:    [ny].07.06--[ny].07.07   8h 30 / Pricked with fine needle 4 times each 4 leaves on Hot-House   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [97] July 6 8° 30 Pricked with fine needle 4 times each 14 leaves on Hot-House Plates 3 leaves (White wool — Stick) on) Plate with Gluten.) Six of the seven leaves had here there 2 or 3 tentacles inflected, generally on side on which I had to hold the pin with large a pin with a large ball of sealing wax behind— I believe this much movement may be attributed to the glands having been pressed for some time — certainly there is no symmetry in the

CUL-DAR68.116    Note:    [ny].07.17--[ny].07.30   Amaryllis longiflora / 8h 30 clean bloom off middle of leaf with water   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [116] Amaryllis longifoliaflora. July 17th 8° 30' clean bloom off middle of leaf with water 80°-90° (about 85°) in Hot-House placed little pool of water on. July 21. 8° 30' trace of yellowish where water has been lying — Rest of leaf beautifully repellent water like globules. — July 30th No effect or at most very doubtfully leaf a shade yellower. F. has examined for loss of starch very little in leaf, except round Stomata, no difference where water

CUL-DAR68.133-136    Note:    [ny].09.05--[ny].10.06   Oxalis sensitiva / Ether spray does not cause closing — minute drops of   Text   Image

/2 Hour [see 5v] Oct 28th 9° 35 A.m. Only 19° above horizon, so had begun in usual manner to fall again ― 12° —to 12° 30 Horizontal ― 2° 45' P.m 16° below, so had begun to fall ― 4° 10' P.m 35° below horizon Oct 29th 7° 30' A.m. only 11° above Horizon — night very cold hard first, yet plant was in [illeg] hot-house Disturbed by [2 words illeg] ― 10° 50' to 12° 40' Horizontal ― 4° 10' P.m. — 33° below the horizon thus long before dark Oct 30' 7° 30' A.m. — about 24° above horizon; but leaves

A793.1    Beagle Library:     Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 1.   Text

would be the more remarkable because the insect was European, while the plant was American and growing in a hot-house. And at any rate it does not seem very likely that the insect would commit her egg to the tube without having previously examined it; in which case she must have discovered it to be half full of water, and consequently unfit for her purpose. It is not so wonderful that many large flies should, as Professor Barton informs us, drop their eggs into the Ascidia furnished with dead

A597.3    Beagle Library:     Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 3.   Text

and very low roofs give the drying place the appearance of a hot-house at some distance. * The indigo found in commerce is produced by four species of plants: the indigofera tinctoria, i. anil, i. argentea, and i. disperma. At the Rio Negro, near the frontiers of Brasil, we found the i. argentea growing wild, but only in places anciently inhabited by Indians. Officinas para sccar el anil. [page] 6

CUL-DAR242    Note:    1824--1896   Emma Darwin's diary   Text

on no appetite Monday, 27 November 1865 went home C. very bad with head fever better Tuesday, 28 November 1865 began sweets quinine Better [crossed] 10 – 4 - 3/4 3 - 1/2 Wednesday, 29 November 1865 dressed came down. went to hot house November - December 1865 Thursday, 30 November 1865 slight chill 3. p.m Friday, 1 December 1865 E.D. 10 – 7 1/4 Saturday, 2 December 1865 December 1865 Sunday, 3 December 1865 !! mg. Monday, 4 December 1865 Tuesday, 5 December 1865 C. 10 -4 Wednesday, 6 December

EH88202366    Note:    1831--1836   Beagle Diary   Text   Image   PDF

1832 Feb 2d some tropical forms can easily be imagined either from hot-house specimens or from drawings, but neither such as Bananas, but I do not think any adequate idea of the beauty of Oranges or Cocoa Nut trees can be formed without actually seeing them on their own proper soil . [Paragraph marked with marginal line in crayon:] We had an introduction to a most hospitable Portugeese, who treated us most kindly feasted us with a most substantial dinner of meat cooked with various sorts of

A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text

age. 57 Sir Joseph Banks, in 1805, sowed 80 grains of the most blighted Wheat in pots, in a hot-house, and had 72 bealthful plants. 58 'Those who convey seeds from distant countries should be instructed to keep them dry; for if they receive any damp, sufficient to cause an attempt at vegetation, they then necessarily die, because the process, as they are situed, cannot go on' Smith's Intr. 99. [page] 19

A922    Beagle Library:     Somerville, Mary. 1834. On the connexion of the physical sciences. London: John Murray.   Text

that the part above, being again quickly frozen into a transparent sheet of ice, admits the sun's rays, which warm and cherish the plant in this natural hot-house, till the returning summer renders such protection unnecessary. By far the greater part of the hundred and ten thousand known species of plants are indigenous in equinoctial America; Europe contains about half the number; Asia with its islands somewhat less than Europe; New Holland, with the islands in the Pacific, still less; and in

CUL-DAR125.-    Note:    1838   Notebook M: [Metaphysics on morals and speculations on expression]   Text   Image

Fox30 believes cats discover birds nests watch them till the young are big enough to eat.— There was blackbirds nest, near hot-house at Shrewsbury, which the cat was seen by Hubbersty31 to visit daily to see how the young got on. this nest the cat could If cats will ever eat little birds, this most curious instance of reason abstinence. — 30. Fox, William Darwin, Darwin's second cousin, fellow student at Christ's College, and intimate who introduced him to entomology. 31. Probably (Nathan

CUL-DAR206.1    Note:    [1839--1844]   Questions & experiments   Text   Image   PDF

, because they cannot be crossed, I think, I expect, except by very minute insects. — (30) Get Abberley to plant single Peas, Kidney Bean Bean, intertwined, without sticks — in reference to what Mr Herbert observe on this subject — (31) Ask Henslow for list of annuals to place in Hot house to see effect on generative organs of great Heat (32) Can Henslow ask question of Col. Le Couteur about Wheat — change of Soil — crossing when seeds raised. — His Book. — [11v

A585    Book:     Lindley, John. 1840. The theory of horticulture; or, an attempt to explain the principal operations of gardening upon physiological principles. London: Longman.   Text   Image

quickly made their way; they grew in a curvilinear iron hot-house, and were trained near to the glass, and consequently were exposed to all the light and heat that can be obtained in this country. They grew vigorously and produced their fruit, but it was not of such good quality as it would have been had the supply of water to the roots been less copious. Thus, in the tropics, the quantity of rain that falls in a short time is enor- [page] 122 APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES

CUL-DAR75.1    Abstract:    [1842--1882.04.00]   [reference incomplete] `Gardeners' Chronicle' 1841-1842   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 1 Volume 1841 [205] Hacons in [illeg] Charles than other Burs 275 The first frost destroys Potatoes as certainly as in Raleigh's Time [illeg] Vine? 291 trees under artificial Heat ( [illeg] have progressing vegetated carbon) - Cherries do not set well in hot house without assistance from my [visit] 292 Vines in N. France not hurt by insects which in [2 words illeg] in South 329 Fern-leaved Beech sporting Back to common form (This is kind of reversion

CUL-DAR112.B30-B35    Note:    [Undated]   Description of my father's ordinary habits during the latter years of his   Text   Image

to come back to the drawingroom, my mother often sending me to fetch him if he seemed to be working too long. Then he would sit and talk for quarter of an hour or so, afterwards start for his walk. During the last ten years it was almost invariable that on his way he would stop at the hot-house for 5 minutes or so to examine or perhaps fertilize some experimental plant, and give orders to the gardener on some point. My mother or some of us often joined him in his walk sometimes we started quite a

CUL-DAR75.3    Abstract:    [1846--1882.04.00]   [reference incomplete] `Gardeners' Chronicle' 1845-1846   Text   Image

moss Rose 226 Vars of Pelargonium which could stand Hot-House 273 On very small proportion of new good seedlings out of 4000 or 5000 – some vars very unstable 363 Quotes Garnell that common cuckoo has built nest for itself. 438 Some of our plants undergo extreme variation in arctic regions – Climate In many cases nearly same vars seem to be reproduced over over again 623 odd peculiarities in [illeg] standing pruning (2) in different vars. of Pelargonium 660 This year the Calcelaria tend to assume

CUL-DAR28.1.A1-A55    Draft:    [1848--1882.04.00]   The action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of certain plants   Text   Image

being treated with the ammonia and iodine; for the fine granular matter was rendered still browner the starch grains of a beautiful blue. These roots were left for a week in a diluted alcohol, and the granules were not dissolved.) (Not a single root-hair could be seen found on these roots. dug up on Dec. 12th. A rooted stolon was now potted formed therefore dug up and potted on Dec. 12th; it was then forced forwards in the hot-house afterwards then kept very dry. When examined on Jan. 3d the

CUL-DAR209.4.173    Note:    [ny].10.28   Helianthus   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [173] Oct 27 Helianthus annuus Hot-house: filament fastened to one cotyledon the other pinned. Vertical glass: Brown paper cylinder white paper lid on top. Magnifying about 20 times On Oct 26th I say that next morning the gum with which the filament had been fastened was loose: therefore I have no doubt that this n filament was fixed on better but I do not say how. I have not joined the days together because it would confuse it more The trace movement

F1583    Book:     Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

they should have been led to pile up before-hand a great mass of vegetable matter in order that it might ferment; for, however the fact may be explained, it is known that other birds will leave their eggs, when the heat is sufficient as in the case of the Fly-catchers, which built its nest in Mr. Knights hot-house:1 even the snake takes advantage of a hot-bed/66 v/in which to lay its eggs; what concerns us more, is that a common hen, according to Prof. Fischer, made use of the artificial heat

CUL-DAR157.1.28    Note:    [ny].08.05--[ny].08.27   Sphærostema marmorata (a small order)   Text   Image

but it stopped (€) being completed: I believe € wd take nearly 24°. It The uppermost internode has now begun winding round stick. It travelled during night.— The winding rises from right to left— Aug 7th There is no doubt this plant good climber, from right to left: at 12°. 30' took away stick—. In Hot house made a €, I think in 18° or 18°. 30' N.B. All the Apocyneæ move with curled or hooked tip in advance. —No not always Aug. 27.— A short shoot on summit revolved in 25°. 30' in Hot-house

CUL-DAR49.57    Note:    1860.07.17   Lilium Martagon — common or Turks' Cap Petal reflexed spotted reddish   Text   Image

-impregnation. But the gangway to all the nectaries is circular; large moth or Humble Bee could in passing from one to other be apt to brush all anthers stigma. Hence no objection to my law of stigma bent into gangway. Contrivance for self-fertilisation for crossing. Other anthers wd be useless without this contrivance. This flower explains that at Kew in Hot-house - namely Gloriosa superba, with its angularly bent pistil. [in margin:] When the corolla drops off, the pistil to great extent

F800    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1862. On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. London: John Murray. 1st ed., 1st issue.   Text   Image   PDF

shallow, and very viscid stigmatic surface, which likewise tears off the grains of pollen from the threads of the caudicles. That living humble-bees can thus remove the pollinia is certain. Sir W. C. Trevelyan sent to Mr. Smith of the British Museum (who forwarded to me) a Bombus hortorum caught in his hot-house, where a Cattleya was in flower with its whole back, between the wings, smeared with dried viscid matter, and with the four pollinia attached to it by their caudicles, and ready to be

F800    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1862. On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. London: John Murray. 1st ed., 1st issue.   Text   Image   PDF

with respect to Epipogium aphyllum.* Mr. Rodgers, of Sevenoaks, informs me that in his hot-house species of Limodorum did not set their fruit without aid; and this is likewise well known to be the case with the Vanilla. This latter genus is cultivated for its aromatic pods in Tahiti, Bourbon, and the East Indies; but does not fruit without artificial aid.† This fact shows that some insect in its own American home is specially adapted for its fertilisation; and that the insects of the above

CUL-DAR108.163-167    Note:    1863.03.07--1863.03.24   Seedlings from Cowslip-Polyanthus crossed in 1861   Text   Image

plant N.B. 7, 8, 10 Pencil ( Hot-House Plant) are short-styled 9, 11 Plant which was not covered by net Pencil are long-styled} Heteromorphic seedlings (

CUL-DAR66.1-2    Note:    1863.03.31--1863.04.09   All the Oxalis go to sleep in Hot-house — leaves droop & each leaflet   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [1] March 31— 1863. All the oxalis go to sleep in Hot-house — leaves droop each leaflet slightly fold in; except O. Braziliensis, very young leaves of this do. — This species is not sensitive. The yellow oxalis with upper foliage, when under side of leaflet touched slightly lifted up certainly very slightly moves down.— The O. Bowii from Kew (with purple ring like clover) different from our O. Bowii is most sensitive, when leaf taken between thumb

CUL-DAR49.97    Note:    1863.06.08   Wind fertilisation / Nettle dioicous — stigma plumerose persisting — no   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [97] Wind fertilisation  June 8-63 Nettle dioicous - stigma plumose persisting - no corolla - male flowers with filaments doubled in kept in place by corolla or calyx - when this freed stamens jump out as anther then dehiscent pollen incoherent it is jerked out as a little cloud - Warmth causes corolla to open, like the Hot-House plant allied to nettle

CUL-DAR157.1.14-17    Note:    [1863].07.23--[1863].08.09   Ceropegia [continued]   Text   Image

performed the circle in Therefore the tip travelled at Aug 7th In Hot-house made circuit, not complete in 5°. 30' probably wd have taken 1° more.— [6 tres Xv

CUL-DAR157.2.21    Note:    1863.10.19--1863.10.29   Lathyrus aphaca[?] t[endrils] sensitive on all sides perhaps most on   Text   Image

foot or 2 high— an old plant in autumn, though in hot-house movement far slower

CUL-DAR157.2.22    Note:    [1863].11.10--[1863].11.15   L[athyrus] grandiflorus — Plant in Pot forced in greenhouse observed in   Text   Image

Nov. 15' I have put plant for some days in Hot House — no movement, but I was for time misled by the depression of t. from oblique to depending position

CUL-DAR242[.28]    Note:    1864   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1864]   Text   Image

Sunday, 24 January 1864 rheumatism excellent day Monday, 25 January 1864 Effie Ed went Tuesday, 26 January 1864 Twice at hot house Hope went sick 12.30 p.m. Wednesday, 27 January 1864 Lizzy to school. Thursday, 28 January 1864 10 – great languor sick 1 – very uncomf day 1. Friday, 29 January 1864 8.30 out a little faint sick 8.30 bad night [line erased] F E W. came Saturday, 30 January 1864 8.30. v. g. day. hot house twice faint sick 8.30 p.m [line crossed out] February 186

CUL-DAR242[.28]    Note:    1864   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1864]   Text   Image

twice to hot house March 186

CUL-DAR18.(1-235)    Draft:    [1864]   'On the movements and habits of climbing plants' part 2   Text   Image

(Tendrils, Cardiospermum) tendrils being arising close to them, may possibly be of additional service in preventing preventing these balloons from being dashed to pieces by the wind. In the hot-house they served simply for climbing.) The position of the tendrils alone suffices to show their homological nature: but in two instances one of two tendrils produced at its tip a flower; but this did not prevent the tendrils acting properly curling round a twig. In a third case, all these branches

CUL-DAR17.2.A63-A93    Draft:    [1864]   'On the movements & habits of climbing plants' [continued]   Text   Image

(Leaf climbers) tendrils, such as those occurring in the allied genus Naravelia. The leaf-stalks petioles which have clasped an object are much more woody, stiff, hard polished than those which have failed in this obj their proper purpose.) (Tropæolum — I observed T. tricolorum, azureum, pentaphyllum, peregrinum, elegans, tuberosum, elegans and a dwarf var. of, as I believe, of minus.) (Tropæolum tricolorum, var. grandiflorum. — The point was unfortunately placed in the hot-house; it grew most

CUL-DAR18.(1-235)    Draft:    [1864]   'On the movements and habits of climbing plants' part 2   Text   Image

(Tendrils) to climb climb thick point trees with their back clothed with (a) lichens, mosses or tillandsia.) Eccremocarpus scaber (Bignoniaceæ). — Plants kept in my green-house, though growing pretty well, showed no spontaneous movements in the axis stem or tendrils; but when removed to the hot-house, the young shoots revolved at rates varying from 3° 15' to 1° 13': at this latter unusually quick rate one fine large circle was swept, but generally the circles or ellipses were small, sometimes

CUL-DAR27.2.A1-A54    Draft:    [1864]   On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria   Text   Image

* note to p. (17)  Lagerstrœmia Indica, one of the Lythraceæ, is strangely variable in its stamens, I presume in part in part due to its inclosed conditions in the hot-house growth cultivation in a hothouse The most perfect flowers produced with me five very long stamens with thick flesh-coloured filaments green pollen, from 19 to 29 short stamens with yellow pollen; but many flowers produced only one, two or three, or four long stamens with green pollen, which in some of the anthers was was

CUL-DAR157.1.139-140    Note:    1864.03.14--1864.06.23   Bignonia capreolata / Dipledenia crassinoda / In Hot-House too hot   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [139] Mar 14 1864 Dipladenia Crassinoda? (Horwood? Bignonia capreolata ? In Hot-house too hot Stem thin apparently twining, leaves consist of 2 leaflets a moderately short long tendril consisting of 2 side terminal branches, (representing 3 leaflets) each branch trifid, ending in a blunt hook. Tendril clasps a stick very slowly apparently in 24°. March 14th, tendril rubbed lightly few times moved in about 1°. 30', ie the terminal portion — A curved t

CUL-DAR157.2.25    Note:    1864.04.30--1864.05.19   Smilax aspera var maculata / Zigzag branches with spines at right angles   Text   Image

This plant was in Hot-house — [25b

CUL-DAR157.2.63    Note:    1864.06.30--1864.07.03   Muscat grape Hothouse apex made a shape thus [`V'-like diagram]   Text   Image

, directed in line the line of the Hot-house in about 2° or 2° 15'. — A 3d longer broader ellipse, (but not quite completed for the shoot moved in another direction) directed obliquely to back of House; took about 2° 15' or 2° 20' Then I watched a 1/2 circle still more to back of House.— /over [63v

CUL-DAR242[.29]    Note:    1865   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1865]   Text   Image

Sunday, 26 November 1865 Anne 10/-  called on [line crossed out] no appetite Monday, 27 November 1865 went home [line crossed out] C. very bad with head fever [line crossed out] better Tuesday, 28 November 1865 began sweets quinine Better [crossed out] 10 – 4 - 3/4 3 - 1/2 Wednesday, 29 November 1865 dressed came down. went to hot house November - December 1865 Thursday, 30 November 1865 slight chill 3. p.m [line crossed out] Friday, 1 December 1865 E.D. 10 – 7 1/4 Saturday, 2 December 1865

F1733    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1865. On the movements and habits of climbing plants. [Read 2 February] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 9: 1-118, 13 text figures.   Text   Image   PDF

growth the finest fibres and secrete an adhesive cement. Eccremocarpus scaber (Bignoniaceæ).—Plants in the greenhouse, though growing pretty well, showed no spontaneous movements in their shoots or tendrils; but, removed to the hot-house, the young internodes revolved at rates varying from 3 h. 15 m. to 1 h. 13 m.: at this latter unusually quick rate one large circle was swept; but generally the circles or ellipses were small, and sometimes the course pursued was extremely irregular. An internode

F834a    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1865. On the movements and habits of climbing plants. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green and Williams & Norgate.   Text   Image   PDF

, 1st circle 16 30 (shoot very young). „ 20, 2nd „ 15 0 h. m. July 21, 3rd circle . . . . . . 8 0 „ 22, 4th „ . . . . . . 10 30 (MONOCOTYLEDONS.) Ruscus androgynus (Liliaceæ), placed in the hot-house, moves against the sun. h. m. May 24, 1st circle 6 14 (shoot very young). „ 25, 2nd „ 2 21 „ 25, 3rd „ 3 37 „ 25, 4th „ 3 22 h. m. May 26, 5th circle . . . . . . 2 50 „ 27, 6th „ . . . . . . 3 52 „ 27, 7th „ . . . . . . 4 11 _____________________________________________________ * I am much indebted

F834a    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1865. On the movements and habits of climbing plants. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green and Williams & Norgate.   Text   Image   PDF

entangled mass. In accordance with the rapidity of all the movements, their duration is short: in a plant growing vigorously from being placed in a hot-house, a tendril only revolved for about 36 hours, counting from the period when it became sensitive; but during this period it probably made at least 27 revolutions. When the branches of a revolving tendril strike against a stick, they quickly bend round and clasp it; but the little hooks play an important part, especially if only the extremity of

CUL-DAR78.183-185    Note:    [1866]--1868   Lobelia ramosa [comparison of crossed and self-fertile plants in number   Text   Image

March 31' 1867 Pot 2. Hot house — Plants coming into flower — The 2 tallest crossed plants about 1 1/2 inch taller than 2 tallest self-fert. plants. (June 3d. All Plants now nearly in flower pot 2 done flowering Pot. I. tallest crossed 10 inches — tallest self 7 1/2 ― II. ― ― 27 1/2 ― 24. {Long kept in Hot House ― III. 11 1/2 10 Pot. not numbered numbered sown after others. X} 15. 12. (In Pot I, III X. The crossed plants flowered a few days before the self-fert; I believe this was so in Pot

CUL-DAR78.122-131    Note:    [1866]--1871   Candytuft crimson — Iberis umbellata var Kermesiana [crossed vs   Text   Image

Sand Crimson Candy-tuft. Both sorts of seeds left in tumbler, sown on thick layer of pure sand this on layer of burnt earth, so no organic manure, forced in Hot-house. — (Nov. 2d Some of recent the tallest the crossed are now, 2 1/2 inches high having only cotyledons not far from double the height of the uncrossed on other side of same glass. —) (Nov. 8th Several crossed plants in sand are now to base of upper petiole of leaves are 1.52 tall have formed 4 leaves. Of uncrossed, the average

CUL-DAR78.200    Note:    [1866--1867]   Parsley Plants growing close together one covered up — several left   Text   Image

Hothouse.) almost all killed by H. H moved into greenhouse. — (Pot I. (Dec. 1') the self-fertilised tallest! Pot 2. 3 Transplanted seeds no difference in Hothouse ― 3 If any difference self-fert. have advantage.) (Dec. 16th Parsley in sand self-fert. perhaps tallest) — (Pot 2 perhaps do, this pot has been moved into greenhouse, for wd not stand Hot-house. Pot 3 do —) (Dec. 30 Parsley in sand crossed plant finest) (Feb. 10th in sand, crossed rather the advantage: Pot 2. crossed rather finest plants

CUL-DAR70.58-60    Note:    1866.01.10--1866.03.19   From J Traherne Moggridge from Mentone received Dec 30 1865 [Ophrys   Text   Image

Feb. 9th 66 No I 3A which had been placed in store both produced monstrous flowers on tip of spike - one with one of upper petals including another - the other with 2 fl. soldered together with petals 1/2 like Labellum 1/2 like true upper petal. March 19th No 2. Upper petals smooth green edged with brown. Sepals white with pink tinge lined with green - Labellum with point - between D C Put into Hot-House Feb 12th so marked. Plants marked No 2 Feb 12 (1866) flowered Feb 11. 1867 is now like D

CUL-DAR209.14.171    Abstract:    [Undated]   Duchartre P `Eléments de botanique' 1867: 347-354   Text   Image

— (See Dassen) p. 352 in all cases nocturnal position is repetition of that in the bud!! p. 355 Hedysarum gyrans — other specs have little oscillating leaflets — so it is in H. Vespertilionis of Cochin-China, lorsque ses deux trés-petites folioles latérales n' avortent pas. — shows that they often do. abort.— [Movement in plants, p. 364.] p. 354 in India 60 movements counted in I': [Meyer] has seen same in hot House

CUL-DAR209.14.170    Abstract:    [Undated]   'Annales Des Sciences Naturelles (Botany)' 5s 9 1868: 345-378   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [170] Ann. des Sc. Nat Bot (5th series) IX 1868 p. 345 Ch. Royer sur le Sommeil des Plantes (largely about Flowers) Insists much on Turgescence— I ought to add with proper degree of fluid turgescence (add at end or beginning) p. 366 remarks on cold stopping sleep-movements; when below 10°C. are slow, when below 5° C stop altogether — I think this does not refer to Hot-House Plants (Used) p. 367 sub-merged leaves sleep as in air p. 368 Medicago

F879.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. [1868]. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. With a preface by Asa Gray. New York: Orange Judd and Co. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

special merits of different breeds for dairying or fattening. Sheep Management, including Breeding, Feeding, Prices, Profits, etc., receives attention, and a very full treatise on the Merinos is given. Grape Culture occupies a large space, embracing the opinions of men in all parts of the country, as to best sorts, planting, training, diseases, and general management for home use or marketing. Full Lists of Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Fruits, Flowers, Green and Hot-house Plants, etc., are given

F878.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., second issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

hardly fail to occur in countries where this plant has been cultivated from the remotest antiquity. That the vine varies much when propagated by seed, we may infer from the largely increased number of varieties since the earlier historical records. New hot-house varieties are produced almost every year; for instance,5 a golden-coloured variety has been recently raised in England from a black grape without the aid of a cross. 1 Heer, 'Pflanzen der Pfahlbauten,' 1866, s. 28. 2 Alph. De Candolle, 'G

F877.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., first issue. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

in India than cabbages.73 To give one instance with flowers: eleven plants raised from a hollyhock, called the Queen of the Whites,74 were found to be much more tender than various other seedlings. It may be presumed that all tender varieties would succeed better under a climate warmer than ours. With fruit-trees, it is well known that certain varieties, for instance of the peach, stand forcing in a hot-house better than others; and this shows ——————————————— 70 'Gardener's Chron.,' 1865, p

F878.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., second issue. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

in India than cabbages.73 To give one instance with flowers: eleven plants raised from a hollyhock, called the Queen of the Whites,74 were found to be much more tender than various other seedlings. It may be presumed that all tender varieties would succeed better under a climate warmer than ours. With fruit-trees, it is well known that certain varieties, for instance of the peach, stand forcing in a hot-house better than others; and this shows 70 'Gardener's Chron.,' 1865, p. 699. 71 'Arboretum

F879.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. [1868]. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. With a preface by Asa Gray. New York: Orange Judd and Co. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

raised a self-prolific stock. The other species often show a tendency towards an imperfect separation of the sexes, as I have noticed with plants forced in a hot-house. Several English varieties, which in this country are free from any such tendency, when cultivated in rich soils under the climate of North America116 commonly produce plants with separate sexes. Thus a whole acre of Keens Seedlings in the United States has been observed to be almost sterile from the absence of male flowers; but the

CUL-DAR60.1.149-152    Note:    1869.03.21--1869.05.27   Inside of leaves channelled with very small & separate glands   Text   Image

April. 4' 69 Drosophyllum. The secretion colours Litmus paper conspicuously pink. (The plant, though now so very few insects, about owing to cold weather catches many small Diptera in Hot-house— must be in some way attractive to them.) (The insects surprisingly softened.) Convexity of disc amt of fluid — Bits of Wood (I can perceive not the slightest evidence after examining many caught insects of any sort of movement or contraction in the glands.) Each gland furnished with bundle of spiral

CUL-DAR63-65    Note:    1870--1882   [Notes on worms for Earthworms, including (1) castings; (2) furrows & ploughed land; (3) experiments at different locales etc.]   Text   Image

2) The fine dust from dry castings consists chiefly of grain of silex, others coated with red or endless particles of brick. — The finest dust, after all broken off glass slide — largely particles of Brick Oct 19 [1880] Disintegration of fragments [found] by [Francis] in gizzard — near Hot-house when bits of brick scum: (1) watch-glass, 2 bits of flint, one of coal one scoriæ — not rounded; but eyes seem not fresh, a little blunted one of quartz about 1 mm across — other quartz many 2. mm long

CUL-DAR79.170-172    Note:    1871   Vandellia numm / seed sent by J Scott after 2 or 3 generations raised in   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (117 Vandellia numm: seed sent by J. Scott, after 2 or 3 generations raised in Hot House. — When plants covered by net the perfect flowers sometimes spontaneously produce perfect flowers pods. — Four perfect flowers were crossed produced seed as below (These flowers difficult to cross, I did not feel sure that I had succeeded; but result shows, I think, that I did.) 132 [+] 111 [+] 129 [+] 96 [=] 468 average 117.5 (white Thread) Six perfect flowers

F1142    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1872. The expression of the emotions in man and animals. London: John Murray. First edition.   Text   Image   PDF

instance of antithesis in expression. I formerly possessed a large dog, who, like every other dog, was much pleased to go out walking. He showed his pleasure by trotting gravely before me with high steps, head much raised, moderately erected ears, and tail carried aloft but not stiffly. Not far from my house a path branches off to the right, leading to the hot-house, which I used often to visit for a few moments, to look at my experimental plants. This was always a great disappointment to the

CUL-DAR53.1.B21    Note:    1872.12.14   Hot-House Face / It is scarcely possible that the change from depressed   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [B21] CD 30 Dec 14 – 72 Hot-House Face p. 60 O It is scarcely possible that the change from depressed nervous power lowered circulation could act so in vexation. A critic has suggested that strong habit then could come to pass – But I doubt whether sudden grief or vexation even cause in mien rather relaxation frustration of force – This usually follows only after some time. It is not solely to recovery of normal attitude; Head much lower. [B21v

CUL-DAR209.4.147    Note:    [Undated]   Cycas pectinata   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [147] Cycas pectinata? (yes) Movements of (Plumule or ) first leaf. (See Tracing A) not greatly magnified [sketch] Made 1 little circle on 26th next during night next day travelled in very zig-zag course to one side— I know not cause. (As the Petioles seemed to be moving irregularly in one direction, the Pot was placed on morning of 28th in Hot-house heat kept up, 17 16—18C. it moved first in one direction then in another in zig-zag lines, but the

CUL-DAR55.116-117    Note:    [Undated]   Index of observations on Drosera 1873   Text   Image

, do) 5 Digitaline 9 9A Atropine p. 21, p. 35 12 Theine 14 Alcohol 16 Curare or Urari. p. 22. 17 Nicotine 20 Segregation after cinder on bad glands 25 Glycerine p. 68 Back 26 Veratria 27 Carbolic Acid 28 Olive oil (try again in Gar Hot house) 29 Albumen of egg 31 Sugar gum arabic — Milk. Phosphate of Ammonia 33 ü Sodium oxalate p. 63 34 ü Potassium ― 35 Recovery from segregation from Ph of amm by alcohol water 36 Colchicine 37 Cabbage juice, p. 40 Grass. p. 41. strong Tea Theine p. 49 Cabbage

CUL-DAR209.11.55-56    Datasheet:    [ny].04.07--[ny].04.11   Nephrodium molle / Cyperus alternifolius / Proof sheets of Cross and self fertilisation, published pp. 146; 165.   Text   Image

April 10' After keeping upright for a day the Fern Cyperus placed vertically with same marks, traced on Hor. glass in darkness. to see if any movement, when vertical.— perhaps too cold to grow in study — if so test Apogeotropism in Hot-House [data not transcribed] As Cyperus nutated well when in Hot-House I suppose my study too cold for it or Nephrodium to nutate — but this very odd as weather not very cold— fire in room —  Whole case very odd [56v

CUL-DAR111.A43    Note:    1873.06.20   Cleistogene Flowers / Drosera rotundifolia kept in cool — Hot-House -   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [43] Jun 20th / 73/ Cleistogene Flowers Drosera rotundifolia kept in cool – Hot-house — there up several flowers stamens, which never opened — Whilst very small, show tips of white petals (through tips of co sepals) cohering covering anthers with pollen still Enclosed pollen-tubes penetrating stigma.— pollen-grain few, though apparently more than in Viola, some arachis — Strictly cleistogamic.— yet sometimes certainly produce perfect flowers which I

CUL-DAR209.11.1-2    Draft:    [ny].07.31--[ny].08.02   Arachis hypogaea [fig 224] / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, folio 51.   Text   Image   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [1 2] July 31' Aug 1' 1878 Arachis Hypogæa circumnutation of Gynophores in Hot-House dependent in nat. Position. Arachis IV. (Fig 224) (same scale) Arachis hypogæa: circumnutation of vertically dependent young gynophore, traced on vertical glass, from 10 a.m July 31' to 8 a.m Augt 2d. [2v

CUL-DAR209.12.89-119    Draft:    1873.10.07--1873.12.12   Desmodium gyrans / Draft of Expression (fragment).   Text   Image   PDF

Desmodium Cold Water Oxalis acetosella put kept in Cool greenhouse put into same water at temp 50°', at 8°h 57'm; at 9° i.e. in 3m partly closed, fairly moderately well closed in 15' but not nearly so close as when naturally asleep.— so it continued whilst was kept for hour or 2 in cold water.— Put into warm water as before but did not open; on the next morning, however opened perfectly though still in water.— The oxalis with copper foliage growing in hot-house Ox. sensitiva from hot Case not

CUL-DAR209.12.141-147    Note:    1873.11.07--1873.12.05   Eucalyptus globulus / Eucalyptus amygdalina [application of water, ether]   Text   Image   PDF

Eucalyptus globulus (young plant with horizontal leaves) Dec' 5- 9° — Washed a leaf rubbed with soft camel with water at 90° so got off bloom put on large drop of water.— (Washed leaf to left at tip did not leave on water.) Removed water on 7th 12° 10'— Greenhouse Cool— Hot House little warmer than Greenhouse— Evaporated water, I think more matter than can be accounted for by dust during 52°.— (Weather dull during whole 52°) time cloudy). (Dec. 9. 3° P.m. no effect produced) Dec. 9th 8° A.m

CUL-DAR209.1.10    Note:    1873.11.29   Cassia floribunda   Text   Image

(see whether not judging from position on the 30th at 4° 15' P.m in Hot-House a little inclined downwards) [1v

CUL-DAR66.34    Note:    1874.05.01--1874.05.02   Oxalis (Greenhouse/grown out of doors) with large leaves & concentric   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [34] June May 1. 74 Oxalis (Greenhouse/ grown out of doors) With large leaves concentric purple mark on leaves— flower pale purple.— syringed leaflets closed closed to certain extent, like O. acetosella. — May 2d Oxalis with Coppery foliage yellow flowers— I syringed 2 lots of plants in Hot House one lot in pot showed slight signs of depression of leaflets. The other showed no signs.— I then put pot outside of H. House — rather cold day leaves after 3

CUL-DAR57.91    Note:    1874.06.23   Really the last counting [calculations]   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [91] Really the last counting. June 23 /74/ [calculations not transcribed.] Maximum 260 (another 255, 252) Minimum 130 N. B The average wd not have been so high had I not counted many spec. forced in cool Hot-House which were extraordinary fine leaves. — I must correct the averge everywhere. I counted in the leaf with 252 tents, those with coloured pedicels viz marginal submarginal, those with colourless or green pedicels on disc. The latter on were

F836    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2d ed. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

(shoot very young) ,, 20, 2nd ,, ,, ,, . 15 0 ,, 21, 3rd ,, ,, ,, . 8 0 ,, 22, 4th ,, ,, ,, . 10 30 (MONOCOTYLEDONS.) Ruscus androgynus (Liliaceæ), placed in the hot-house, moves against the sun. H. M. May 24, 1st circle was made in . 6 14 (shoot very young) ,, 25, 2nd ,, ,, ,, . 2 21 ,, 25, 3rd ,, ,, ,, . 3 37 ,, 25, 4th ,, ,, ,, . 3 22 ,, 26, 5th ,, ,, ,, . 2 50 ,, 27, 6th ,, ,, ,, . 3 52 ,, 27, 7th ,, ,, ,, . 4 11 —————————— * I am much indebted to Dr. Hooker for having sent me many plants

F836    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2d ed. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

time. In a plant placed in the hot-house and growing vigorously, a tendril revolved for not longer than 36 hours, counting from the period when it first became sensitive; but during this period it probably made at least 27 revolutions. When a revolving tendril strikes against a stick, the branches quickly bend round and clasp it. The little hooks here play an important part, as they prevent the branches from being dragged away by the rapid revolving movement, before they have had time to clasp

F1220    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. Insectivorous plants. New York: D. Appleton.   Text   Image   PDF

rare plant has been found only in Portugal, and, as I hear from Dr. Hooker, in Morocco. I obtained living specimens through the great kindness of Mr. W.C. Tait, and afterwards from Mr. G. Maw and Dr. Moore. Mr. Tait informs me that it grows plentifully on the sides of dry hills near Oporto, and that vast numbers of flies adhere to the leaves. This latter fact is well-known to the villagers, who call the plant the fly-catcher, and hang it up in their cottages for this purpose. A plant in my hot

F836    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2d ed. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

became bent in 31 seconds, had been touched two hours previously and had coiled into a helix; so that in this interval it had straightened itself and had perfectly recovered its irritability. To ascertain how often the same tendril would become curved when touched, I kept a plant in my study, which from being cooler than the hot-house was not very favourable for the experiment. The extremity was gently rubbed four or five times with a thin stick, and this was done as often as it was observed to have

F1220    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. Insectivorous plants. New York: D. Appleton.   Text   Image   PDF

caused the tentacle bearing each gland to be greatly inflected. The blade was also inflected. Lastly, eight leaves were immersed, each in thirty minims of a solution of one part of the phosphate to 21,875,000 of water (1 gr. to 5000 oz.). Each leaf thus received 1/80000 of a grain of the salt, or .00081 mg. I took especial pains in selecting the finest leaves from the hot-house for immersion, both in the solution and the water, and almost all proved extremely sensitive. Beginning as before with

F880.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 2d ed. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

imperfect separation of the sexes, as I have noticed with plants forced in a hot-house. Several English varieties, which in this country are free from any such tendency, when cultivated in rich soils under the climate of North America116 commonly produce plants with separate sexes. Thus a whole acre of Keen's Seedlings in the United States has been observed to be almost sterile from the absence of male flowers; but the more general rule is, that the male plants overrun the females. Some members

CUL-DAR59.2.95    Note:    1875.04.21   Digestion of chlorophyll / Thin sections of spinach leaf were slightly   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [95] Ap 21. 75 Digestion of Chlorophyll Thin sections of spinach leaf were placed slightly moistened with saliva placed in the discs of several leaves at 5.15. PM. Similar sections were placed on moist cotton wool put close to the plates of Drosera in the hot-house Ap 22 - 12.30 PM - ie. 19h Examined a leaf which was still clasping its morsel of spinach. The latter was thoroughly soaking with secretion so no drying of its tissues could possibly have

F1277    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1877. The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

expanded at its upper end, and this forms an open channel leading into the ovarium, as described under V. canina. It is slightly bent towards the two fertile anthers. Viola Roxburghiana. This species bore in my hot-house during two years a multitude of cleistogamic flowers, which resembled in all respects those of the [page] 32

F1277    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1877. The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

produced in Mr. Farrer's hot-house; * Dr. Kirk, 'Journ. Linn. Soc.' vol. viii. 1864, p. 147. 'Archives du Mus um,' tom. iii. 1843, pp. 35 38, 82 86, 589, 598. 'Die Schutzmittel der Bl then gegen unberufene G ste,' 1876, p. 25. [page] 33

CUL-DAR209.6.38    Note:    1877.01.05   Cassia corymbosa   Text   Image

interval of 50' angle was 100° 9 I believe by that time had begun to open again (Used) Jan 7th. Still kept in study the Cot was irritated for 2', but did not move in the least, so it seem must be kept hot to be sensitive in the small degree above shown.— (over) Try rubbing upper surface in Hot-House [in margin:] In rubbing upper surface in Hot-House [38v

CUL-DAR66.129    Note:    1877.07.00--1877.08.00   Averrhoa / sponged with w[ater] at 90° 4 or 5 leaflets   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [129] 1877 Averrhoa Bilimbi July 31' Sprayed Sponged with w. at 90° 4 or 5 leaflets (marked black thread) pinned to board — (Plant taken from very hot House) put in water. Aug. 3d 9˚ 30' sponged 2 older leaflets with water at 90° put on drops— (surface very repellent after sponging.) Purple wool below.— Aug 8' 8˚ A.m. The leaflets on younger leaf where water lay, I think I think a little yellower. Aug 15. 8˚ removed water I can see no clear effect

CUL-DAR209.1.23    Note:    1877.09.16--1877.09.18   Cassia caliantha   Text   Image

.— Every morning the leaf moved to S. W. (ascertain direction of Hot-House) but in a crooked course, sometimes rising sometimes sinking. The odd triangle made during Left before 12° 2'. 25' seemed to be due to sun having come out at this time, the day having been before cloudy. The lesser movement during the 17th, probably due to day colder.— The general movement on the successive days to the SW.? I presume owing to growth of leaf

CUL-DAR209.4.251-254    Note:    1877.11.02--1877.11.13   Marrow   Text   Image

. 11th) at 7° a.m the 2 stood at angle of 18° (having been kept under dark cover) with the tips of the 2 almost straight; still not so completely closed as last night in Hot-House. At 8° 24' the angle was 22°, opened more as day advanced. I cd not make out that rubbing stem or scratching cots. any effect. Nov. 12' 7° 30 A.m. Cots: not closed. Nov. 12 In the morning at about 7° 15 (Fourth day) a.m. the Cots were not closed: at 7° P.m 10° 15' P.m of same day the 2 together formed an angle of 46

CUL-DAR209.4.94    Note:    1877.11.08--1877.11.09   Canna warscewiczii   Text   Image

cold. (Used) Nov. 9th I put glass filament in sheet same sheath tied it within apex with thread mark below observed from 8° 45' a.m Nov. 9th to 8° 10' Nov. 11th— Kept in complete darkness in F. room, with no fire first day fire 2d day, when it went more crooked— No doubt too cold, as brought from Hot-House Tracing magnified only 5.62 time say 6 times. (See diagram z.). This diagram reports not completed circles, one made each day. — Course rather zig-zag.— Must be considered as irregular nutation

CUL-DAR209.9.94-102    Note:    1877.11.15--1878.12.29   Sleep of cotyledons [connected notes on various species]   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (2 Cotyledons— Sleep of (Used) Lotus Jacobœus Linn. Dec. 13 Cots rise a little, but not enough to deserve to be called sleep. (a) (over) Dec. 16 Cots rise considerably so as perhaps to be called sleep. Lotus ornithopopoides, Cots. sleep that is rise up considerably Solanum palinacanthum S. Brazil: Dec. 13th during day in Hot-House Cots horizontal at 10° P.m, formed angle together of 125° [calculation], so that each had risen 27°. 30'. I kept another

CUL-DAR209.14.37-38    Note:    1877.11.23   Maranta   Text   Image

[in margin:] This is like Climbing Plants Maranta petiole an angle of about 9° or more generally about 91 100° — when asleep the midrib of some was parallel (being separated by oblique joint) to the petiole in other leaves the midrib formed angle of at 123°, so had not risen much. The plant was brought down on warm very stormy evening to my study so leaves were much blown about not one leaf went to sleep, on the following evening it did not go to sleep in Hot-house: I think due to the great

CUL-DAR209.2.118    Note:    1877.11.23   Mimosa pudica, cotyledons of [application of water]   Text   Image

morning at 7° 20' Nov. 24th only partially open.: at 7°.30' P.m. the 2 cots formed an angle together of less than 90° instead of 180°; at 10° 35' P.m were nearly but not quite closed. At 7° a.m. (having been kept in darkness) Nov. 24th rather considerably more open when taken to Hot-house was found at 8° 25' quite expanded.— Nov. 24th Kept seedlings for some hours in case temp. only 69-70°: Cots in this [sketch] S.E. side. Day rainy uniformly cloudy, kept brown paper in front.— Cot moved over 1

CUL-DAR209.4.307    Note:    1877.12.17--1877.12.18   Orange gourd   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [307] Orange Gourd. Dec. 17 18th /77/ Traced on Horizontal glass in Hot-House— protected from light.— Dec. 17th Arc of hypot. cot just visible on a little beneath level of ground —, cleared away soil from little little above .2 of inch way all round to depth of about rather more than .2 fixed glass filament rather obliquely to basal part of stem with shell-lack placed triangle on ground. The filament dropped off on 2d day but I believe was about 1/2

CUL-DAR209.4.125    Note:    [1877?].10.25   Cerinthe major   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [125] Cerinthe major Oct 25 1st Hot-house; glass fibre gummed across stem of seedling whose cotyledons are hardly open paper mark below dots made on horizontal glass magnifying about 30 times. At first only darkened the place where pot stood on one side on the front or light side: at 9.35-40 darkened it all round

CUL-DAR209.4.368-369    Note:    [1877?].12.13--[1877?].12.18   Solanum palinacanthum   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (1 Solanum palinacanthum Movement of seedling, whilst Cots buried in ground Dec. 13th — A seedling forming forming arc with cots. still under ground. The arc projected .18 above ground had glass filament affixed to the hypocot. stem [sketch] (level of earth) traced on Hor. glass in Hot-House, protected from lateral light. See diagram.— movement cannot be trusted after 3°. 5', as filaments become loose — Before that zig-zagged so much, that probably

F1251    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1878. The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. 2d ed. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

two other pots, IV. and V. These pots had been kept in the hot-house, but from want of room were, whilst the plants were young, suddenly moved during very cold weather into the coldest part of the greenhouse. They all suffered greatly, and never quite recovered. After a fortnight only two of the nine self-fertilised seedlings were alive, whilst seven of the crossed survived. The tallest of these latter plants when measured was 47 inches in height, whilst the tallest of the two surviving self

CUL-DAR209.1.120    Note:    1878.02.10   Melilotus taurica   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 120 Feb 10th 1878 Melilotus Taurica — Little shoots at base of stems of last year shoot, with very small leaves looking like a clover.— The terminal leaflet turns up so as to stand vertically only in 1 case was it turned at all laterally; the 2 lateral leaflets turn upwards, so as to stand vertically but do not touch — sleep much more like a clover than in Melilotus — Mem. case of M. messanensis.— Feb 16. observed in Hot-House again case is true. Mel

CUL-DAR209.7.47-49    Note:    [1878].03.16--[1878].03.28   Cyclamen persicum   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [47] Cyclamen Persica March 16' Pot with several pods bowed down toward ground laid horizontally in greenhouse the pods bowed soon bowed down at right angles to former course (is there not a note about this describing it more carefully???) so I assumed was geotropism— On 24th Pot still horizontal was turned upside down, so pods all pointed vertically up kept in dark cupboard in cool hot-house: by the Ap 1 ' 28th ie after one week hardly 4 days no or

CUL-DAR209.4.300-301    Draft:    1878.05.28--1878.05.31   Opuntia basilaris / Proof sheet of Forms of flowers.   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [300 and 301] Fig. 3 20 B. Opuntia basilaris [Figure pasted on] (Scale 1.3 no lettering) Combined [illeg] Cir Circumnutating of hypocotyl Cotyledon. Fig 20B combined ; Filament with bead at end mark back below fixed longitudinally to one of Cotyledon movement traced in Hot-House on Horizontal glass during 66hr. Movement of bead magnified about 30 times, 10 times in figure given Seedling feebly illuminate from vertically above) Circumnutates from 4

CUL-DAR209.14.115-116    Note:    [1878].05.30   Sida coronifolia   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (1 Sida corolifolia Young plant 9 1/2 inches high.— Glass filament with 2 triangle of paper fixed to 3d leaf from apex, nearly fully-grown 2 3/8 inches long, traced on vertical glass— under skylight. But day rather cold 15°—16° cent. poor illumination the leaves did not rise so vertically as in Hot-House. Tracing A shows that leaf circumnutated for did not ascend descend on same line.— On the 25th descended but only for short distance from 9° 15' am

CUL-DAR209.14.122    Note:    1878.06.13   Sida coronifolia   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [122] June 13th 1878 Sida It is certain that the leaves in Hot-House sleep incomparably better in Hot-House that they did under the skylight, for even the older ones stand up vertically, whole bush presents a remarkable appearance

CUL-DAR209.1.3    Note:    1878.06.18--1878.06.20   Arachis hypogaea   Text   Image

with lateral edge vertical by twists of petiole, as when asleep; on 18th the sole movement was expanding as day advanced after 4° P.m tie becoming vertical again for sleep. On 19th (or next day) course more complex, 1 descended, ascended, 2 descended ascended, 3 descended ascended, as it went to sleep. After sleep on both night descended (ie leaf began to open) early in morning — The plant either from not being brightly illuminated or from not being hot enough did not sleep so well as in Hot-House

CUL-DAR209.14.149    Figure:    1878.06.22--1878.06.24   Thalia dealbata   Text   Image

[Figure] A horizontal sheet of gauze was suspended over the Thalia in hot house plumb line dropped through the gauze on to the tip of leaf the place on the gauze marked 1 ─ 6.30 pm Sep 4 2 ─ 730 am 5th 3 ─ 930 4 ─ 1155 5 ─ 2335 6 ─ 420 7 ─ 525 8 ─ 10 5pm Thali

CUL-DAR209.13.2-11    Note:    [1878].07.10-[1878].07.18   Thalia [application of nitric acid, nitrate of cobalt, hydrocyanic acid,   Text   Image

upper short nectary sensitive?? Pods setting self-fertilised.— no insect in Hot-House Try touching curtain Try hot water, dropping in after cold — 100°F. A flower with stalk in n. of Cobalt exploded spontaneously Hydrocyanic acid rendered flower torpid but limpid so that I dissected it, the pistil only just began to curve, as figured (

CUL-DAR209.6.47    Note:    1878.07.22--1878.07.28   Cassia [tosa] [application of nitric acid]   Text   Image

another Cot. of another plant very warm cloudy day in Hot House. I then pricked for 30 with pin, resting on finger a Cot, but did not touch pulvinus, the opposite Cot. rose. I [pinched] pulvinus this Cot rose stood quite vertical, I succeeded in no instance in making both Cots close.— (

CUL-DAR209.2.136-137    Note:    1878.07.31--1878.08.01   Mimosa pudica   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (1 Mimosa pudica. July 31st Aug 1. 1878 An old sick leaf, hardly sensitive, wa had filament fixed along main petiole, observed in [sketch] Hot-House — traced on vertical glass – House kept up to nearly 80°F. See Tracing— fell till 10. 19' then rose, till 5°. 9. by which time great evening fall had commenced Rose again by early morning, next morning fell in zig-zag line then remained in nearly same spot. A young leaf was observed at same time, but as

CUL-DAR209.6.138    Note:    1878.08.28   Oxalis sensitiva   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [138] Aug. 28th 1878 Oxalis sensitiva (Light Touch) Relation of Plan Brought pot out of Hot-House left for 30' in S.W. window the leaflets were all horizontal — Placed in washing corner at 11° 10' looked at occasionally till 12°— no trace of sleeping. — Put pot on absolutely dark closet at 12° looked at occasionally but by 1. 32' no signs of sleep.— I then tried leaflets found they were sensitive. Used Therefore there is no close relation between

CUL-DAR209.3.153-157    Note:    1878.09.23--1878.09.30   Dionaea oscillaria   Text   Image

Sept 24' 1878 Dionæa oscillation oscillation (Pot taken into Hot-house — filament with mark fixed perpendicularly across another much younger leaf with Closed blades of which stood standing at right angles of Petiole from not being expanded: observed in Hot-House- (temp 84°-86° F) with light only from above. This was plant of which complete description of figures. Micrometer scale 1/500 of inch. At 10° 55 moved quite gently with no starts from me to distance of 1/500 of inch; before this had

CUL-DAR209.3.153-157    Note:    1878.09.23--1878.09.30   Dionaea oscillaria   Text   Image

followed till 10° a.m on 26th. The extraordinary zig-zag line shows circumnutation, but the general movements in one direction due to the raising or straightening of the closed laminæ. There can be no doubt that it circumnutates — Observations made in my study — circumnutation wd have been greater in Hot House probably ↘ [3v

CUL-DAR209.6.103-104    Note:    1878.10.26--1878.11.02   Lotus Jacoboeus   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [103] Oct 26th 1878 Lotus Jacobaeus Light Pot with seedlings from Hot House put at 12°. 45' behind book-case in study at 4° 50' ( before) cots very little or not at all affected by dimness — at 10° about 90° together so considerably raised, but cannot be said to sleep. Temp On 27th put in Hot-case temp. often 80° F, brought into study late in evening, on 30th after 3 or 4 days but I could see no signs of sleep or even of elevation of Cots!!!— Yet some

CUL-DAR209.7.110    Note:    [1878].12.04--[1878].12.07   Phalaris   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [110] Canary grass— Light Dec. 4th. brought pot in morning from Hot-House put in dark closet, observed soon — Bad plan as change of temp shaking wd prevent check sensitiveness— put under microscope with bichromate light— no plain movement— [calculation not transcribed] Removed bichromate during first 10' moved 2 or 3 divisions from light! After additional 5' had moved 1 division ie 1/500 of inch, to light — After interval of few minutes crossed 2/500

CUL-DAR209.6.146    Note:    [1878].12.06--[1878].12.07   Oxalis sensitiva   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (3 Oxalis sensitiva Dec. 6th 4 seedlings — some a week old 2 other only 1 to 2 days old. r Sun was shining well illuminated in Hot Case, then put into dark cupboard in Hot House at 12° 10'— The Cots. owing to circumnutation held very different positions I may add till 4° 20' continually changed their position in the dark, at this hour were just beginning I believe permanently to close.— I will describe only 2 cases. at 12° 10' thus [sketch] (1) à

CUL-DAR209.11.214b-215    Note:    [1878?].07.31--[1878?].08.24   Arachis hypogaea   Text   Image   PDF

Arachis (gynophore.) July 31st A long gynophore, almost touching ground had filament [sketch] fixed thus movement traced on vertical glass in Hot-House— See Tracing III. from 10° 20' July 31' to to 8°. 10' P.m Aug 1st (Next morning) pin mark (not given) was in middle of figure (This gynophore was casually observed on Aug 2d 3 days was clearly circumnutating, being protected from any lateral light.—) Also a short— gynophore which had grown less than 1 inch in length was observed in same manner

CUL-DAR209.9.1    Note:    1879.04.06   Anoda wrightii   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] (1 Anoda Wrightii (Malvaceæ) April 6th 1879 (1st Chapter) 3 Seedlings with fairly sized cots. horizontal by day — at 10° P.m, each Cot was 34° beneath horizon, so plainly declined down, but not enough to be called asleep. Plant had been kept all day in Hot-House.— The hypocotyl is highly heliotropic [in margin:] After Gossypium 7th 8° 30' secured Hypocotyls to pins placed the 3 before S.W. window in blackened box — day cloudy.— (A good deal of

CUL-DAR209.3.47-52    Note:    1879.11.02   (Miscellaneous): Carnation-tree / Petunia violacea / cabbage / Vicia faba   Text   Image

Gossypium Hortense very little difference in position of Cotyledons, but these odd I think The 2 which are transverse to light ( the youngest one) a little inclined to light— a few observations to try whether cotyledons do really bend to light pots put into Blackened Box in Hot House — Cloudy day — received only lateral light. [51v

CUL-DAR209.9.7-8    Note:    1879.12.12--1880.01.11   Beta vulgaris   Text   Image

1879 Beta vulgaris Jan. 22d Kept all day in Hot-House 10° P.m. White thread Purple thread} Cots I think somewhat more closed them in day} Red wool Black wool} Cots considerably closed closed (This in 6 days only some) 1 thick white 1 string-cotton} nearly or quite as much open as they were at midday. It seems that by having been kept hot all day they close more at night. Jan 13' left all day before N.E. window in study.— At noon I observed petioles on base of cots, all open whereas they had

F1325    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

caused. After 10 m., however, vigorous oscillations commenced, perhaps owing to the plant having been warmed and thus stimulated. The candle was then removed and before long the oscillations ceased; nevertheless, when looked at again after an interval of 1 h. 30 m., it was again oscillating. The plant was taken back into the hot-house, and on the following morning was seen to be oscillating, though not very vigorously. Another old but healthy leaf, which was not in the least sensitive to a touch

F1325    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

). Some seedlings were raised in the middle of winter and kept in the hot-house; they flowered, but did not grow well, and their leaves never showed any signs of sleep. The leaves on other seedlings raised in May were horizontal at noon (June 22nd), and depended at a consi- [page] 38

F1325    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

on the previous day. Darkness, therefore, during a day and a half does not interfere with the periodicity of their movements. On a warm but stormy evening, the plant whilst being brought into the house, had its leaves violently shaken, and at night not one went to sleep. On the next morning the plant was taken back to the hot-house, and again at night the leaves did not sleep; but on the ensuing night they rose in the usual manner between 70 and 80 . This fact is analogous with what we have

F1280    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. London: John Murray. 2s edition.   Text   PDF

capsules were produced in Mr. Farrer's hot-house; and the gardener detected that they were the product of minute bud-like bodies, three or four of which, could sometimes be found on the same umbel with the perfect flowers. They were quite closed and hardly thicker than their peduncles. The sepals presented nothing particular, but internally and alternating with them, there were five small flattened heart-shaped papill , like rudiments of petals; but the homological nature of which appeared

F1325    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

during the greater part of the day to a temperature of between 69 and 72 F.; some, however, were placed in the hot-house where the temperature was rather higher. Above two dozen beans were thus tried; and when a square of glass or card did not act, it was removed, and a fresh one affixed, this being often done thrice to the same radicle. Therefore between five and six dozen trials were altogether made. But there was moderately distinct deflection from the perpendicular and from the attached

F1325    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

leaves of Maranta arundinacea (which previously had not been disturbed in the hot-house), prevented their sleeping during the two next nights. We will now give our observations on sleeping plants, made in the manner described in the Introduction. The stem of the plant was always secured (when not stated to the contrary) close to the base of the leaf, the movements of which were being observed, so as to prevent the stem from circumnutating. As the tracings were made on a vertical glass in front of

F1325    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

about twice; seedling illuminated from above. Gossypium (var. Nankin cotton) (Malvaceæ). The circumnutation of a hypocotyl was observed in the hot-house, but the movement was so much exaggerated that the bead twice passed for a time out of view. It was, however, manifest that two somewhat irregular ellipses were nearly completed in 9 h. Another seedling, 1 1/2 in. in height, was then observed during 23 h.; but the observations were not made at sufficiently short intervals, as shown by the few dots

F1325    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

different periods from those of the foregoing species of the allied genera of Cucurbita and Lagenaria. Fig. 31. Opuntia basilaris: conjoint circumnutation of hypocotyl and cotyledon; filament fixed longitudinally to cotyledon, and movement traced during 66 h. on horizontal glass. Movement of the terminal bead magnified about 30 times, here reduced to one-third scale. Seedling kept in hot-house, feebly illuminated from above. Opuntia basilaris (Cacteæ). A seedling was carefully observed, because

F1325    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

, only .4 of an inch in height, had sprung up in a pot in the hot-house. An extremely fine glass filament was fixed to the end of the frond-like stem, and the movement of the bead traced on a horizontal glass. It changed its course several times, as shown in Fig. 54, whilst observed during 13 h. 15 m., and returned at night to a point not far distant from that whence it had started in the morning. There can be no doubt that this little plant circumnutated. Fig. 54. Selaginella Kraussii

F1325    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

therefore was left undisturbed in the hot-house, and three leaves had their angles measured at noon and at 10 P.M. All three were inclined a little beneath the horizon at noon, but one stood at night 2 , the second 21 , and the third 10 higher than in the middle of the day; so that instead of sinking they rise a little at night. (19.) Cyclamen Persicum (Primulaceæ, Fam. 135). A young leaf, 1.8 of an inch in length, petiole included, produced by an old root-stock, was observed during three days

F1325    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

; but probably it is not apheliotropism, as all the gynophores grew straight down towards the ground, whilst the light in the hot-house entered from one side as well as from above. Another and older gynophore, the apex of which had nearly reached the ground, was observed during 3 days in the same manner as the first-mentioned short one; and it was found to be always circumnutating. During the first 34 h. it described a figure which * 'Gard. Chronicle,' 1857, p. 566. [page] 51

F1325    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

following night. By this time a minute true leaf had become developed. Another seedling, still older, bearing a well-developed leaf, had a sharp rigid filament affixed to one of its cotyledons (85 mm. in length), which recorded its own movements on a revolving drum with smoked paper. The observations were made in the hot-house, where the plant had lived, so that there was no change in temperature or light. The record commenced at 11 A.M. on February 18th; and from this hour till 3 P.M. the [page] 4

F1325    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

formed with the horizon 14 times between 9 A.M. and 11.50 P.M. The temperature of the hot-house varied during the two days of observation between 18 1/2 and 23 1/2 C. At 9 A.M. the filament stood at 32 above the horizon; at 3.34 P.M. at 10 and at 11.50 P.M. at 55 ; these two latter angles being the highest and the lowest observed during the day, showing a difference of 45 . The rising did not become strongly marked until between * 'Die Lehre von der Pflanzenzelle,' 1867, p. 327. [page] 25

F1325    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

double the above height, their leaves stood at night almost or quite vertically dependent. The leaves on some large plants of G. maritimum and Brazilense, which were kept in a very badly lighted hot-house, only occasionally sank much downwards at night, and hardly enough to be called sleep. Oxalis (Oxalidae). In most of the species in this large genus the three leaflets sink vertically down at night; but as their sub-petioles are short the blades could not assume this position from the want of

CUL-DAR209.9.16    Note:    1880.01.21--1880.02.17   Naples Cotton   Text   Image

. not watered this day or yesterday. 10. 25' P.m— in 2 larger pots cots, somewhat fallen, yet not nearly enough to be called sleep) (Feb 5th 10 10' P.m. not watered— all day, not asleep— The plant single in pot rather withered drooping thrown away) (Feby. 6th. 10° 20' P.m— not watered, not in least asleep.) (Feb. 17th 7° a.m. The Bell glass was left off last night in study now Cots flaccid hanging vertically down: watered plants put on Bell- Glass sent them to Hot House) [illeg] In afternoon Cots

CUL-DAR209.2.142-145    Note:    1881.04.14--1881.05.17   Mimosa pudica [application of water, black grease]   Text   Image

May 2 d. 1881.— Mimosa pudica 11° 30' a. m— a new plant— 8 leaflets cleaned with camel-brush.— 4 with drops of water — outside leaflets —(I marked 4 of the leaflets on one pinna with black grease-dots – 2 of which will have drops 2 will not have them, so as to see whether these can injure leaflets— All 8 leaflets pinned down. — In Hot-case, Hot house. (May 3d 7° 15'. a.m I put biggish dots of black Grease on the 2 washed leaflets, which do not bear drops of water, as a further test whether the

CUL-DAR209.12.132-133    Note:    1881.07.08--1881.08.16   Desmodium gyrans [application of water, sulphuric ether]   Text   Image   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [1] July 8th 1881 Desmodium gyrans 2 youngish leaves on young plant (9 inches high) washed with sponge 4 drops of water transversely with water about 96° F distilled water to be placed opposite pins on one side of leaf—; the opposite side left as contrast— leaves with one fine pin to keep horizontal above cork tablet below. — Under Bell-glass — air damp with towel In Hot-house— drops placed at 11. 30' July 8th (a very dark cloudy day) July 9th morning

CUL-DAR209.12.174    Note:    1881.09.12   Schizolobium [application of water]   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [174] Schizolobium. — from F. Muller 1881. Sept. 12th First pair of leaves, each with 12 pairs of leaflets; carrying plant from Hot-house where blown by wind, caused leaflet to rotate so as to stand at high angle to advance towards apex.— Sleep beautifully.— leaflets rotate so as to stand vertically move towards apex of petiole, become a little depressed so as to point a little beneath line of arched petiole.— Sept 13th on carrying back to hot House

CUL-DAR62.77-78    Note:    1881.12.12--1882.01.03   Strawberry — Osmic acid completely blackens [application also of   Text   Image

brown granular matter — Roots left for a week in rather strong alcohol, not rendered transparent much granular matter left in them. — Jan 3d A runner with roots dig up kept very damp then dry in hot-house, has now formed innumerable root-hairs. Roots kept in 7 to 1000 for 23°— In the thinner roots in most of the cells underlying the epidermis, small translucent, not-granular brown, spheres ovals, or irregularly shaped, or filament masses which appear like a viscid fluid. Close to tip brown

F839    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The movements and habits of climbing plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

time. In a plant placed in the hot-house and growing vigorously, a tendril revolved for not longer than 36 hours, counting from the period when it first became sensitive; but during this period it probably made at least 27 revolutions. When a revolving tendril strikes against a stick, the branches quickly bend round and clasp it. The little hooks here play an important part, as they prevent the branches from being dragged away by the rapid revolving movement, before they have had time to clasp

F839    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The movements and habits of climbing plants. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

also placed a bell-glass over a young Muscat grape in the hot-house, and it made each day three or four very small oval revolutions; the shoot moving less than half an inch from side to side. Had it not made at least three revolutions whilst the sky was uniformly overcast, I should have attributed this slight degree of movement to the varying action of the light. The extremity of the stem is more or less bent downwards, but it never reverses its curvature, as so generally occurs with twining

F1800    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of certain plants. [Read 16 March] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 19: 239-261, 2 text figures.   Text   Image   PDF

with the ammonia and iodine; for the fine granular matter was rendered still browner and the starch-grains of a beautiful blue. These roots were left for a week in diluted alcohol, and the granules were not dissolved. Not a single root-hair could be found on these roots. A rooted stolon was therefore dug up and potted on Dec. 12th; it was then forced forwards in the hot-house, and afterwards kept very dry. When examined on Jan. 3rd the roots were found clothed with innumerable root-hairs; and

F1281    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1884. The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. 3d thousand. Preface by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

flowers;* and I hear from him that this is the case with the heterostyled trimorphic O. incarnata from the Cape of Good Hope. Oxalis (Biophytum) sensitiva. This plant is ranked by many botanists as a distinct genus, but as a sub-genus by Bentham and Hooker. Many of the early flowers on a mid-styled plant in my hot-house did not open properly, and were in an intermediate condition between cleistogamic and perfect. Their petals varied from a mere rudiment to about half their proper size

A254    Book:     Allen, Grant. 1885. Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton.   Text   Image

little northern fauna and flora, the mere leavings of the vast ice sheets that spread across our zone in the glacial epoch, show us a world depopulated of all its largest, strangest, and fiercest creatures; a world dwarfed in all its component elements, and immensely differing in ten thousand ways from that rich, luxuriant, over-stocked hot-house in which the first great problems of evolution were practically worked out by survival of the fittest. But the tropics preserve for us still in all

F1452.3    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 3. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

at Kew, iii. 166; on Belt's 'Naturalist in Nicaragua,' iii. 188; on the death of Sir Charles Lyell, iii. 197; on vivisection, iii. 204; on Mr. Ouless' portrait, iii. 195; on the Earthworm, iii. 217; on his address to the Geographical Section of the British Association, iii. 246; on the fertilisation of Orchids, iii. 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 268; on establishing a hot-house, iii. 269; on his review of the 'Fertilisation of Orchids,' iii. 273; on different forms of flowers in species of Primula

F1452.1    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

. This story is made use of in the 'Descent of Man,' 2nd Edit. p. 74. In my memory there were only two dogs which had much connection with my father. One was a large black and white half-bred retriever, called Bob, to which we, as children, were much devoted. He was the dog of whom the story of the hot-house face is told in the 'Expression of the Emotions.' But the dog most closely associated with my father was the above-mentioned Polly, a rough, white fox-terrier. She was VOL. I. I [page] 11

F1225    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1888. Insectivorous plants. 2d ed. Revised by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

rare plant has been found only in Portugal, and, as I hear from Dr. Hooker, in Morocco. I obtained living specimens through the great kindness of Mr. W. C. Tait, and afterwards from Mr. G. Maw and Dr. Moore. Mr. Tait informs me that it grows plentifully on the sides of dry hills near Oporto, and that vast numbers of flies adhere to the leaves. This latter fact is well known to the villagers, who call the plant the fly-catcher, and hang it up in their cottages for this purpose. A plant in my hot

F1225    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1888. Insectivorous plants. 2d ed. Revised by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

of a grain ( 00000738 mg.). This amount caused the tentacle bearing each gland to be greatly inflected. The blade was also inflected. Lastly, eight leaves were immersed, each in thirty minims of a solution of one part of the phosphate 21,875,000 of water 1 gr. to 5000 oz.). Each leaf thus received 1/80000 of a grain of the salt, or 00081 mg. I took especial pains in selecting the finest leaves from the hot-house for immersion, both in the solution and the water, and almost all proved extremely

F1146    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. The expression of the emotions in man and animals. 2d ed. Edited by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

, who, like every other dog, was much pleased to go out walking. He showed his pleasure by trotting gravely before me with high steps, head much raised, moderately erected ears, and tail carried aloft but not stiffly. Not far from my house a path branches off to the right, leading to the hot-house, which I used often to visit for a few [page] 6

F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF

the middle, it violently jerks the web, which is attached to elastic twigs, till at last the whole acquires such a rapid vibratory movement, that even the outline of the spider's body becomes indistinct. It is well known that most of the British spiders, when a large insect is caught in their webs, endeavour to cut the lines and liberate their prey, to save their nets from being entirely spoiled. I once, however, saw in a hot-house in Shropshire a large female wasp caught in the irregular web of

F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

Wales, 273; on a new French translation of the 'Origin,' 275; on the life of Erasmus Darwin. 287; on Mr. Ouless' portrait, 292; on the earthworm, 285; on the fertilisa HUXLEY. tion of Orchids, 297, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307: on establishing a hot-house, 307; on his review of the 'Fertilisation of Orchids,' 309; on climbing plants, 314: on the 'Insectivorous Plants,' 319, 321; on the movements of plants, 316; on health and work, 326. Hooker, Sir J. D., 'Himalayan Journal,' 162. Horner, Leonard, 14

F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

hot-house face is told in the Expression of the Emotions. But the dog most closely associated with my father was the above-mentioned Polly, a rough, white fox-terrier. She was a sharp-witted, affectionate dog; when her master was going away on a journey, she always discovered the fact by the signs of packing going on in the study, and became low-spirited accordingly. She began, too, to be excited by seeing the study prepared for his return home. She was a cunning little creature, and used to

F1548.2    Book:     Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

sets of anthers (i.e. the petal-facers and the sepal-facers) have very different powers; and it does not seem that the difference is connected with any tendency to abortion in the one set. Now I think I can understand the structure of the flower and means of fertilisation, if there be two forms, one with the pistil bent rectangularly out of the flower, and the other with it nearly straight. Our hot-house and green-house plants have probably all descended by cuttings from a single plant of each

F1552.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF

it and thinks there never was such a heroine before. I find I like it very much this time, and sympathise with her. The first time I could not get over a feeling of disgust at her marrying so degraded a man. Bob was the dog who used to put on his hot-house face1 of despair when delayed in starting for his walk by my father's stopping to look at experiments in the hot-house. Polly was a little rough-haired fox terrier. After the puppies had been made away with my mother writes: Polly is so odd I

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

starting for his walk by my father's stopping to look at experiments in the hot-house. My dog, Polly, mentioned below, was a little rough-haired fox terrier. After her puppies had been made away with, my mother wrote: Polly is so odd I might write a volume about her. I think she has taken it into her head that F. is a very big puppy. She is perfectly devoted to him ever since; will only stay with him and leaves the room whenever he does. She lies upon him whenever she can, and licks his hands

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

Joseph Hooker (his lifelong friend and champion, Curator of Kew Gardens): And now I am going to tell you a most important piece of news!! I have almost resolved to build a small hot-house; my neighbour's first-rate gardener has suggested it, and offered to make me plans, and see that it is well done, and he is a really clever fellow, who wins a lot of prizes, and is very observant. He believes that we should succeed with a little patience; it will be a grand amusement for me to experiment with

F1817    Book:     Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text

abortive stamens.— show crossing ?heredetary? (15) Abberley has a hooked Pea.— intends to breed from it and large Asparagus: result? = failed to germinate 16 Will plant some of the Thyme with abortive stamens by Terrace to see, whether stamens will be produced in individual plants 17 A dead-nettle in Hot-house, will it seed?— (Skim through Penny Cyclopaedia) Abberley says that some Bees are smaller more vicious. Will try to get me some to look at:— Was once offered a hive, of these small Bees— at

F1817    Book:     Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text

obtained— I name these three plants, because they cannot be crossed, I think, I expect, except by very minute insects.— Get Abberley to plant SINGLE Peas, Kidney Bean Bean, intertwined, «without sticks»— in reference to what Mr. Herbert observe on this subject—5 Ask Henslow for list of annuals to place in Hot house to see effect on generative organs of great Heat Can Henslow ask question of Col. Le. Couteur about Wheat— Change of Soil— crossing— when seeds raised.— His Book.—6 11 answered by Gaertner

F1827    Periodical contribution:     Porter, D.M. 1987. Darwin's notes on Beagle plants. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(2): 145-233.   Text   Image   PDF

black precipices that surround it. A clear brook gives a luxuriance to the spot that no other part of the island would lead you to expect. Nothing has surprised me so much as the very dark green of the oranges; some tropical forms can easily be imagined either from hot-house specimens or from drawings, such as Bananas; but I do not think any adequate idea of the beauty of Oranges or Cocoa Nut trees can be formed without actually seeing them on their own proper soil. . . . We were told there was a

F1925    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

approaches the sides of the hill or precipice, the town valley of St Domingo are seen. I can imagine no contrast more striking than that of its bright vegetation against the black precipices that surround it. A clear brook gives a luxuriance to the spot that no other part of the Island would lead you to expect. Nothing has surprised me so much as the very dark green of the oranges; |93| some tropical forms can easily be imagined either from hot-house specimens or from drawings, such as Bananas. but I

F3275    Book:     Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.   Text   Image   PDF

vol. 2, 28 22-24z, 27m 28f w 37 wt Moths STERNE, Carus (i.e. Ernst KRAUSE) Werden und Vergehen Berlin; Gebründer Bomtraeger; 1876 [CUL] p STERNE, Carus Werden und Vergehen 2nd edn; Berlin; Gebrüder Bomtraeger; 1880 [Down] STEUDEL, Ernst Gottlieb Nomecktor bot-anicus Stuttgart Tübingen; J.G. Cottae; 1841 [CUL] sx, sy, wd NB p. 112 Poinsettia Cyanophyllum Hot House Plants Azalea anaena Hibiscus (Abutilon) allied to Viscus (Hooker) Rudgea Rubiaceae dimorphic part 1, 5b 48m 95b 20m, 28m, 20m, 26m, 32m