RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1864]. The foliar nature of the tendril in Modecca. CUL-DAR157.2.81. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
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-DAR157.11-60 were in a folder marked "Twiners". Items CUL-DAR157.61-112 were in a folder marked "Leaf-climbers" and items CUL-DAR157.114-147 were in a folder marked "Tendrils". Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
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[Enclosure in a[before 31 March 1864 letter from Daniel Oliver:]
The foliar nature of the tendril in Modecca (one or two species at least) clearly breaks down:— branches of the tendril bearing flowers & fruit.
Have you seen 'Recherches nouvelles sur la cause du mouvement spiral des tiges volubiles' par M. Isidore Léon.—in 'Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France' Vol. V. (351. 610. &c.)?
If not shall I abstract it for you? | D. O.
[Darwin, in margin:] Add note
See Lindley for Modecca & put note after Passiflora—Brunichia
[Climbing plants, pp. 91-2: "We have seen that the tendrils in the last three families, namely the Vitaceæ, Sapindaceæ, and Passifloraceæ, are modified flower-peduncles. This is likewise the case, according to De Candolle (as quoted by Mohl), with the tendrils of Brunnichia, one of the Polygonaceæ. In two or three species of Modecca, one of the Papayaceæ, the tendrils, as I hear from Prof. Oliver, occasionally bear flowers and fruit; so that at least they are axial in their nature."]
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