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).


[48]

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."]


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