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.‡"


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