RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].06.19-20. Arachis hypogaea / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.1.5. 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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Arachis
19th 8° 20'after night
9. 25 same course
10 40 gone back, ie up & to left
11 29 to right & a little down
12 up & to left back little
1.30 down & to right
2.15 same course
3° 5 to left & up
(leaves do not properly open)
4° 30 much up & to left
5 little, moving same course (leaf quite vertical)
5 45 same spot
7° 15 down & to right (so moving when vertical)
8 12 to left & up
8 48 to left & up
9 50 up & to left
10 45 to right
20th 6 35 [sketch]
8 10
Used
Do leaves sleep well?
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could be no cross-fertilisation.
The frequency, almost regularity, with which pollen in the case of non-anemophilous plant
is transported by insects from flower to flower, often from a considerable
[Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 377-8: "The frequency, almost regularity, with which pollen is transported by insects from flower to flower, often from a considerable distance, well deserves attention.‡"
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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