RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Sida. CUL-DAR209.14.126. 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-DAR209.14 contains material for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


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Sida a most distinct swelling in Petiole close to lamina, which externally graduate into lower part of Petiole. — generally pulvinus quite distinct above & below— So we have gradation from cases like Nicotiana & Euphorbia or Tropaeolum, through Sida to true joints.—

with C seedling Lotus & Oxalis (?) we have another sort of gradation— at first whole petiole of same sized cells???


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