RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1874.05.25. Cassia. CUL-DAR209.12.51. 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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May 25' 1874— I placed Greenhouse Cassia & little sp. which has been photographed out in rather heavy warm rain & no wind— & the leaves were hardly at all depressed & not at all inverted.— I then shook plant a little & there was some inversion, so that it seems to be movement & not drops of water which causes movement—


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