RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1861-1877]. Passiflora / Draft of Orchids, chapter 5, folio 121. CUL-DAR209.11.86. (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 7.2023. 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-DAR209.11 contains material for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880). The text of the draft corresponds to Orchids, p. 178.


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Passiflora — roughly

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8°. 31    first dot    tip 1 5/8 from glass    2 6/8 from mark to tip

8 52    (3d dot)

9 10' 4'    dot

   raised glass new line { tip of t 2 3/8 from glass — 2 6/8 from mark

9 57'

10 45    ⨀ completed in 2° 15'

10. 45    bowed down— to almost vertically down

10. 50    first dot. (dot to m 9.) Magnified abut in same do

—— ?    second dot

11. 48 —    3d dot    zig-zagging

12. 15 .    same course — short distance

12. 32    an atom to left

1°    crossed old line & made △

1 40    to right & up — t horizontal

2. 30    far up to right.

2 . 54    do    do— is t 40° above horizon

3 32    up & to right

4. 5    coming back, that is nutating

4. 43    to right & down a △

5 24    very little way to right

5 57    do    do    do

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(Ch. V.)

caudicle, instead of being free, becomes at an very early period of growth united to the Rostellum, of which a portion of is removed, together with the pollen-masses, by insects as in the case of Orchis & other ophreæ. The imaginary diagram (fig. 22) with the parts separated will best explain the (Fig. 22) type-structures of the Vandeæ. The summit upper part of the middle organ (2.) which which is the dorsal or posterior pistil of the three present in every all orchids; its upper part f is modified into & forms the rostellum & is curved over the stigma. The stigma consists of two confluent stigmas (3) belonging to the two [text excised] On the left-hand we have the


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