RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1877]. Acacias. CUL-DAR209.12.2. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2023. 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-DAR209.12 contains material for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
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Acacias
The only thing to try is whether the vertical leaves with bloom, wh are injured by water when this is removed. Also whether the leaves with bloom are as vertical as the others.
Therefore 1 or 2 sp. with bloom, of the quite vertical & less so in degree, if such difference exists.
A. cultriformis, (sub-vertical & splendid bloom)
A. parvissima, vertical & slight bloom
A. nor. 22., sub-vertical & slight bloom.
A. vestita, vertical & slight bloom
I may assume that the many sp. with vertical leaves & no trace of bloom are not injured by wet running down them, & it probably will not lodge so much as on horizontal leaves.
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