RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Lotus creticus. CUL-DAR209.1.55. 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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Lotus Creticus — sleeps well, the 3 leaflets & 2 Bracteæ equally large all rise up approach each other & clasp stem, especially growing buds at end of each shoot. I doubt whether short petiole rises.


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