RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. 1864.06.04. Clematis flammula 10 inches string. CUL-DAR157.1.77. 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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June 4 1864 Clematis flammula
10 inches string (weighing 1 gr 1.64 gr.) suspended from stick with the end, 1 in from the perpendicular just crossed a terminal & termino-lateral foot stalk. These were slightly curved in 36 & pretty plainly in 48 hours
The pressure must have been infinitely slight. The string is so thin that it hangs in a flexuous line. I find in 48° that the absolute tip of the string only 1/2 in from the perpendicular is caught like in a forceps between terminal & lateral foot stalk.
Now no movement of internode, which are hardly growing
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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