RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of De Candolle, Physiologie végétale, etc. CUL-DAR209.1.34. 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).

Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1832. Physiologie végétale; ou, exposition des forces et des fonctions vitales des végétaux, pour servir de suite à l'organographie végétale. 3 vols. Paris. (See CUL-DAR119-)


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Aug. P. De Candolle. (Tom 2. 1832) Physiologie Végétale

p. 855 in Linnaeus first class of folia consirvertia "arroches" Atriplex — specified —"circumsapientia" "Marvel de Péru"

p. 856 Colutea — leaflet rise up vertically & meet each other

p. 858 Porlieria hygrometrica "qui, dit on, "rapproche ses folioles des que le ciel se dispose à la pluie"!!!

p 861. could not modify by artificial light the times of sleep of Oxalis incarnata & stricta

He uses term Desmodium & not Hedysarum.


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