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
Nv. 2
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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