RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Lotus peregrinus / Lotus species. CUL-DAR209.1.56. 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 peregrinus. — seedlings with only 1 or 2 leaves — Cotyledons rise up vertically — the 2 lateral & terminal leaflets embrace the growing bud at end of shoot; petiole at about  of 45º.

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Lotus

Peregrinus

Jacobœus

corniculatus

ornithopodoides

gebelia

aristata

major

[ci…….]

[sevicus]

creticus

10 species

 

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