RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1879.10.04. Oxalis carnosa. CUL-DAR209.3.22. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN1

NOTE: Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR209.3 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).

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I shall have occasion hereafter to show (& give a tracing) that the sub-peduncles of Oxalis carnosa bend down after the flowers have withered, through epinasty; the course being zig-zag at at first a true circumnutating one & then a zig-zag line.

(Epinasty)

Oct 4' 1879

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