RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny].10.01-02. Trifolium repens. Proof sheet of Forms of flowers, p. 54. CUL-DAR209.10.76-77. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. RN2

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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Trifolium repens Oct I (Diagram 2)

Oct. 2d 7º 30' a.m

Oct. 2d 8º a.m

8. 5' a.m Oct 1'

10. 15'

10. 33'

10. 54'

11. 25'

12º

12º 18 & 12º. 45

1. 40

2º. 20'

4º. 30'

4º. 54

5º. 20'

5º. 33' P.m going to sleep

7º a.m Oct 1d 

8º a. Oct 2d 

Trifolium repens: circumnutation & sleep— movement of nearly full-grown lo terminal leaflet, traced on vertical glass from 7 a.m Oct 1. to 8 a.m Oct 12 d.— Nocturnal course much abbreviated & represented by curved broken line.

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