RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Henrietta Darwin. 1864.02.21. There are climbers by hooks as brambles Galium & certain palms. CUL-DAR157.1.59. 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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Feb 21 1864

There are climbers by hooks as brambles Galium & certain palms. These do not concern us & I mention them solely because in the two first I ascertained there were no movement of shoots. Another class climbs by rootlets as Ivy, Ficus repens, etc. I refer to these solely because we have seen in Hoya that we have rootlets & spontaneous movements. It may be suspected that Tecoma radicans has lost its power of movement.

 


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