RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Desmodium gyrans (F 181). CUL-DAR209.10.24. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. 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-DAR209.10 contains notes on sleep (Leguminosae) for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


[24]

Desmodium gyrans young Plant (awake) during day

[Fig] F 181

a little reduced but not so much as 2/3 — The leaves to match in length those in the other figure of Desmodium

[Movement in plants, p. 358: Fig. 149 "Desmodium gyrans: A, stem during the day; B, stem with leaves asleep. Figures reduced."]


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