RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Phaseolus multiflorus. CUL-DAR209.4.333. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles 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 60º above Horizon or 30º from vertical (A)

Phaseolus (2) slope 68º or 22º 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 60º (C)

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


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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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