RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Keep list of leaves rising in evening. CUL-DAR209.3.53. 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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Keep list of leaves rising in evening

(1) Glaucium

(2) Crambe

(3) Brassica

(4) Camellia

5 Vicia faba —whole leaf & leaflet

(6) Bryophyllum (Crassulaceæ) rise in evening & fall in morning

(7) Dahlia without much doubt

(8) Mutisia. clematis rose en evening

(9) Cyclamen certainly rise

(10) Allamanda Schotia

(11) Wiegandia

Petunia probably

Cannabis sink down, due to epinasty, perpendicular, & possibly like case of Dianthus & Petunia?

12 Acanthus

13 Cycas pectinata

14 Canna

Crinum capense? probably

15 Imatophyllum

16 Pistia

Pontederia doubtfully

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3 too young to judge

Dianthus, Geranium, & Petunia Petunia

Probably rise.

Petunia, Crinum Capense & Pontedria

33 [-] 18 [=] 15

16 rose in evening

2 probably rose

3 too young

1 Canabis full in e

3 [illeg] did not rise

[=] 25

6 observed for too short a time

[=] 31

2 no cause can be assigned for no [illeg]

[=] 33 Total not observed

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