RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1877.09.17. Mimosa albida. CUL-DAR209.2.111. 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-DAR209.2 contains materials on circumnutation of leaves and stems for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
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Mimosa albida
Sept 17th. 1877
These rudiments seem to undergo no movement as might be expected. The little reduced leaves not only sleep, but are in slight movement during the day & as we know are strongly heliotropic— If a pair of this kind were rendered rudimentary, we shd have such short rudiments as we find them & on principle that rudiments do not disappear, there wd not be nearly so great a difference between the rudiments, as between the large & small leaf
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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