RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Phaseolus multiflorus. CUL-DAR209.4.333. 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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Circumnutation of radicles on smoked glass— inclined

Phaseolus multiflorus — vel coccineus

Scarlet Runner (1) beautifully serpentine, left glasses in places, slope of glass about 60° above Horizon or 30° from vertical (A)

Phaseolus (2) slope 68° or 22° from vertical upper part serpentine — lower part Chain of dots — more circumnutation in vertical plane (B)

Phaseolus (3) slight moderately serpentine— often pressed more or less on glass — angle about 60° (C)

— (4) slightly serpentine— angle abv 60° above Horizon.


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