RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Kidney bean / Young plant raised in Greenhouse. CUL-DAR157.1.34. 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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Kidney Bean.—
Young plant raised in Greenhouse— slates supporting huge cotyledon 4 5/8 inch — first internode 7 1/2 inch long— Neither of these move.
The upper internode, together with very young one an inch long, were 6 1/2 inches in length, but shortened by tip being curved.
This upper internode made a first most regular circle in 2° — A second circle in 1°. 55' — A third in 1°. 55'.— Moves reverse of Watch.—
I see a trace of twisting in this upper internode clearly due to growth; about 1/2 a circle in whole length. —
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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