RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Melilotus officinalis. CUL-DAR209.10.48-51. 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).
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No. 176. a. b. c.
Melilotus officinalis
[Fig]
[Fig] — not quite accurate: I have touched it with penknife & added pencil line— footstalk of middle leaf was crossed by little line. The upper margin of back leaflet wd. be much improved by my pencil line in [illeg] cut & in original. The 2 outer leaflets arise opposites one another
[Fig]
[49]
(2/3 scale) F 176
[Fig] B.
M. officinalis same leaf as Fig 9
Fig. 10 asleep viewed laterally
[50]
(2/3 scale)
[Fig] C
F 176
M. officinalis (seen from vertically above)
Asleep
[51]
These 3 figures of Melilotus officinalis might all go one below the other on same Page.—
(2/3 scale)
[Fig] A F. 176
Melilotus Officinalis
Fig 1 awake
[Movement in plants, p. 346: "Melilotus officinalis: A, leaf during the daytime. B, another leaf asleep. C, a leaf asleep as viewed from vertically above; but in this case the terminal leaflet did not happen to be in such close contact with the lateral one, as is usual."]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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