RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.02.08. Lotus jacobœus. CUL-DAR209.1.54. 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).
[54]
Lotus jacobœus asleep. The tri fertile linear with leaves stand up vertically. [2 words illeg]
& close together & then [surround] central bud.— The Cots. certainly rise a little though 3 or 4 whorls of leaves formed above them.
([In… subterranean] does not sleep This must refer to cotyledons.)
(This closing laterally is a distinct kind of movement)
Feb. 8/78/
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
File last updated 25 September, 2022