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).


[118-119]

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.]


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