RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Cassia calanthe. CUL-DAR209.1.31. 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 calanthe

The terminal leaflets when asleep point backwards as in C. floribunda &c

Medicago marina. The 2 laminæ of leaflets are always bent at angle to each other & do not apparently change during sleep.

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