RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1879.06.07. Oxalis sensitiva. CUL-DAR209.3.248. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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-DAR209.3 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
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June 7th 1879
Oxalis sensitiva
Two flower peduncles with flowers in bud stood vertically up in day & horizontally down at night— There is a great enlargement at base of peduncle, where it joins axis of plant— very hairy, colored purple & formed of small cells — a pulvinus.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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