RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1878.05.28-30. Sida corylifolia / Proof sheet of Forms of flowers, p. 166, published p. 332. CUL-DAR209.14.118-119. (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-DAR209.14 contains material for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
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Sida corylifolia
Fig
Tracing A
9º. 15. a.m 28th
6. 40 am. 29' 10º. 50' P.m 28th
10. 50 P.m. 28th 6º. 40' a.m 29th
8º. a.m
9. 5
4º P.m 29th
6º 45' a.m 30th
8º. 30' a.m 30th
same scale
N. B my lines very badly drawn; attend only to dots
6 sets of lettering
Fig 154
circumnutation of Leaf ─ stem secured ─
May 28th to morning of 30th 1878
same scale
N.B my lines very badly drawn; attend only to dots
6 sets of lettering
Circumnutation & Sleep movements?
Sida corylifolia: young plant 9 1/2 inches high; filament affi with little triangle of paper affixed to midrib of nearly full-grown leaf, 2 3/8 inch in length; stem secured to stick at base of petioles; movements traced under a skylight, with apex of leaf 5 5/8 of inch from the vertical glass.
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[Proof sheet of Forms of flowers, p. 166, published p. 332.]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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