RECORD: Darwin, C. R. (Francis Darwin) 26 October. Helianthus annuus. CUL-DAR209.4.171. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. RN1

NOTE: Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR209.4 contains for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


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Helianthus annuus

Oct 26. Hot house

One cotyledon pinned to cork a glass filament gummed to the other & observed by forshortening on a vertical glass. Plant darkened by a cylinder of brown paper with a white paper top.

Note next morning the gum was loose & wet.


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