RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. 1877.11.28. Sea kale in pot. CUL-DAR209.4.340v. 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: 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).


340v

Feb 28th

Sea kale in pot on left in far Green house, both prostrate with blackened stalks. Rt hand pot not injured

Cauliflower—

Those with pins not injured

One cotyledon on two small seedlings & one big one un injured

One small seedling quite dead prostrate

Many unmarked ones also shanked off

March 1

One of those with pins prostrate

Two small & one big prostrate.


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