RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Mimosa albida. CUL-DAR209.10.52. 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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[Fig] F 185
(reduced 2/3 attend to little point in middle.)
M. Albida — nat size nat size— pinnæ conversely divergent [sketch]
reduced to 2/3—
G.H.D George
[Movement in plants, p. 379: "Mimosa albida.*—The leaves of this plant, one of which is here figured (Fig. 159) reduced to 2/3 of the natural size, present some interesting peculiarities.
* Mr. Thistleton Dyer informs us that this Peruvian plant (which was sent to us from Kew) is considered by Mr. Bentham ('Trans. Linn. Soc.,' vol. xxx. p. 390) to be 'the species or variety which most commonly represents the M. sensitiva of our gardens.'"]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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