RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Leguminosæ. CUL-DAR209.10.82-84. 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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Leguminosæ
Tribe 3
3 Trigonella cretica (71) The middle leaflet turns vertical and goes against the Rt or Left lateral leaflet
Tribe 4
4 Securigera. coronilla (78)
4 Tetragonolobus pupureus {Lotus 81} — 3 leaflets upwards
Tribe 5
5 Psoralea acaulis 83 — Three leaflets, 2 sides ones move up & come together & the end one comes against the united edges of them
5 Amorpha Dalea alopecuroides 88 — Downwards
5 Petalostemon violaceus 89— Downwards (12 genera in this tribe)
5 Indigofera tinctoria (91) Downwards
5 Sphærophyra Tephoria— Duchartre & Wistaria Cl. Royer Robinia Clianthus (127) salsola Upwards
5 Astragalus uliginos us (133) Colutea— Decandolle leaflet rise —(I have observations also) — upwards
Hyplosphoriza Linnaeus
Tribe VI 6
6 Uraria lagopus (174) 3 leaflets which drop down one at the end & one at each side
Tribe 8
Centrosema St Catherine — see M. S.
8 Soja hispida (Glycine (196)) 3 leaflets drop down
8 Apios tuberosa (204) Downwards
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Leguminosæ
Tribe X 10
10 Edwardsia chrysophylla (Sophora 273) Leaflets sleep like Mimosa but I dont know whether the secondary petioles close up
Tribe 13
13 Cæsalpinia echinata (308) — upwards
Hæmatoxylon Gleditschia— Duchartre
13 Coulteria pertinata (Cæsalpinia) 308 upwards
13 Pterolobium abyssinicum (311) leaflets shut like Mimosa
13 Poinciana Gilliesii (317) leaflets like Mimosa
Tribe 15 Cassia Tribe XIV
15 Bauhinia Richariana forlicata & discolor (333)
Tribe 16
16 Tamarindus indicus (348) upwards
Tribe 20
20 Adenanthera pavonina (378) leaves turn edgways & drop
20 Prosopis (382) upwards
Tribe 23
23 Albizzia lophanthus (394) upwards
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Leguminosæ
Gœbelia alopecuroides (Not in Bentham nor Steudel). The leaflets drop down
Ligophyllum not in Steudel or Bentham (Leguminosæ)
Zygophyllum guaiacum evidently can shuts upwards from the look of the leaf, but it did not do so at night— It may have been unhealthy.
Guaiacum officinale — did not sleep at night
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