RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1877].09.18-20. Trifolium resupinatum / Proof sheet: Forms of Flowers, p. 4. CUL-DAR209.1.139. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2022. 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 volume CUL-DAR209.1 contains materials on circumnutation of leaves and sleep for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


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Trifolium resupinatum — terminal leaflet at ∟ to light plant in same position for some time

Sept 18' = 11° 45

12° 5'

12° 42'

2. 15'

2 50'

3 55

4°. 30'

5° — leaf had upper corner going to sleep & little rising

19th 1 7° 45'

2 8°. 30'

3 9° 30'

4 10 15 bent to right

5 10. 35'}

6 10 50} no change in light

7 11° 10' almost vertically down

8 11 30 — turning up again— no change in light

9 11 50

10 12 10' no change in light — Hazy day

11 12. 45'

12 1°. 25' — highest point?

13 2 20 at ∟s downwards

14 2 44

15 3°

16 16 3. 55° going down

4° 45 beyond glass — leaves turning laterally for sleep

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20th (1) 7° 50'

2 8° 10'}

3 8 40'}

4 9. 30'}

5 10. 20'}

6 11° 20'} uniformly Cloudy

7 11' 50 a little to right-hand

8 12. 35. horizontal

9 1°

10 1° 20'

11 (1 50' 2 30) same spot

12 2 50 bent towards light

13 3° 5'

14 3°. 30' crossed the old line

15 4°

4° 30 beyond glass leaflet upturned

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[Proof sheet of Forms of flowers, p. 4, (published, p. 7)]


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