RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Cyclamen persicum. CUL-DAR209.4.149. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2022. 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-DAR209.4 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
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Cyclamen Persicum
The seedling before it rises from ground consist of a tuber with roots at base & from this a stem like body rises, which apparently is the petiole of the single cotyledon, with no trace of 2d Cot.— This supposed Petiole rises like an arch with the blade of Cot closely infolded & often still enclosed within seed-coats, after rising above Earth
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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