RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Henrietta Darwin. 1864.05.15. Dwarf Crimson Nasturtium stated to be prostrate. CUL-DAR157.1.95. 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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May 15th /64 "Dwarf Crimson Nasturtium" started to be prostrate — I suppose a var. of Trop. Minus. Rubbing many leaves caused no movement in leaf peduncles nor could I see that any of them had caught twigs though they grew oddly crooked.
The shoots shewed no spontaneous movement except to & from light in rather irregular course & not far.
From analogy of whole genus sensibility & power of movement have been lost. —
Peduncle of T. elegans
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