RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1877.08.14-15. Lupinus pilosus / Draft of Orchids. CUL-DAR209.1.62. 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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Aug 14-15/77

[annotated sketch] These were young leaves on summit of young Plant. The next leaves & older leaves did not rise up during sleep

80 [-] 33 [=] 47

Lupinus pilosus full leaves awake dotted lines asleep angle turned thro' 47º

Therefore each leaf turn 1/2 of 47º say 23º

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which [words excised]

viscid, the pedicel of the rostellum. portion of the rostellum, I shall call as heretofore the viscid disc. The whole object with their several parts may be conceivably spoken of as the pollinium.—

In the Ophreæ we always have (except in O. pyramidalis) two separate viscid discs; in the Vandeæ we have only one with, as far as I have seen, only a single exception namely in Angræcum. The disc is naked (ie not enclosed in a pouch) as in one section of the Ophreæ. In Habenaria (one of the Ophreæ with naked disc) The discs are separated

[Orchids, pp. 180-1: "In botanical works the whole structure between the disc (generally called the gland) and the waxy balls of pollen is designated as the caudicle; but as these parts play an essential part in the fertilisation of the flower, and as they are fundamentally different in their origin and in their minute structure, I shall call the two elastic ropes, which are developed strictly within the anther-cells, the caudicles; and the portion of the rostellum to which the caudicles are attached (see diagram), and which is not viscid, the pedicel. The viscid portion of the rostellum I shall call, as heretofore, the viscid disc. The whole may be conveniently spoken of as the pollinium.
In the Ophreæ we always have (except in O. pyramidalis) two separate viscid discs. In the Vandeæ, with the exception of Angræcum, we have only one disc. The disc is naked, or is not enclosed in a pouch. In Habenaria the discs, as we have seen, are separated from the two caudicles by short drum-like pedicels, answering to the single and generally much more largely developed pedicel in the Vandeæ."]


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