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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