RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1877].08.13-16. Cassia Greenhouse /Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.1.20. 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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Cassia Green House Var Leaf almost Horizontal Perpendicularly down
13th
1° first dot
2° down
3 up & to left
4° straight down
5 down—
6 perpendicularly down going to sleep not marked
14th 6° 40' & 8 still down perpendicularly did not wake
9° 10' first dots, has now risen
10.10 up
11 35 up
12.50 up
2° far down
3° 10' down & to left
4. 30 below glass
15th
6' 5º
8º 5 up
9.23 to left & down a little
10.30 up
10.45 to right horizontally
12 back to left
1º down
2º 5 down to the right
3º up & to left
4º far down
5 perpendicularly down
16th 6º 50' [sketch] up
8º 30 up
Leaf almost Horizontal Perpendicularly down
15th 6º P.m
[sketch] in line with this Blue
7º to left
9 to right on a level
11 30 going back to where started from
dip of Leaf
5 1/2 not fr glass
16th 8º 30 slided pot to left
8º 45 rising
9.12 up
10.15 down
10.35 up
10.55 up
12 down
12.55 up
2º down
3 far down
4.30 far down
17th
6º 50'
8.30 up
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[this page not in Darwin's hand:]
* page 39
The colours and odours of the flowers of 4200 species have been tabulated by Landgrabe, and by Schübler and Köhler. I have not seen their original works, but a very full abstract is given in Loudon's Gardener's Mag. Vol. XIII. 1837 p. 367.
[Cross and self fertilisation, p. 374.]
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