The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1864.08.08. Hibbertia dentata. CUL-DAR157.1.57. 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

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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Aug 8'— 1864. Hibbertia dentata.

I gave it also a mass of twigs, but the shoots after ascending for a space came out laterally. I then gave it a number of nearly parallel straight sticks; then the shoots ascended well always turning reverse of sun (ie from left to right) & often leaving one & going to another or 2 or 3 others together — The shoots which came out of twigs ascended these sticks also— Apparently it tests in the ramble laterally from stem to stem.

The depending shoots do not turn abruptly up, as is so general with twining

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Plants — This is first case of especial adaptation in Twining plants, which I have seen — probably others may be adapted to thicker & thinner supports.

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)