RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & George Darwin. n.d. The tendril of Tropaeolum tricolor has a small pointed slightly flattened end. CUL-DAR157.1.86. 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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The tendril of Tropæolum Tricolor has a small pointed slightly flattened end, on the inner or clasping surface of which there is a prominent midrib ridge, and on the outer surface a hollow answering to this midrib ridge: so that is has very much the appearance of a small fleshy rudimentary leaf of which the two lobes are plainly marked by a ridge-like midrib—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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