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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Kerner, Die Schutzmittel des Pollens. CUL-DAR209.15.71. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. 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-DAR209.15 contains notes and photographs for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).

A. Kerner: Die Schutzmittel des Pollens (offprint from the Berichten des Naturw.-med. Vereines zu Innsbruck. II. and III. 1872.

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Drosera paper. Bearing on Mimosa

A. Kerner. Schutzmittel des Pollens. p. ~~22.~~ & 34 on rain causing bending of stems (very good to show that water will act good contrast to barbery adapted for insect-touch

31 many contrivances to protect pollen,

33 periodical bending

Flowers of Drosera

[Climbing plants, p. 68, n*: "It appears from A. Kerner's interesting observations, that the flower-peduncles of a large number of plants are irritable, and bend when they are rubbed or shaken: Die Schutzmittel des Pollens, 1873, p. 34."]

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