RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Lotus peregrinus / Lotus species. CUL-DAR209.1.56. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2022. RN2
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).
[56]
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 L 45º.
[56v]
Lotus
Peregrinus
Jacobœus
corniculatus
ornithopodoides
gebelia
aristata
major
[cintriary]
[sevicus]
creticus
Total 10 species
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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