RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1877?].12.17-19. Solanum palinacanthum / Proof sheet of Forms of flowers. CUL-DAR209.4.374-375. (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.
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Solanum palinacanthum.
Dec. 17 & 18
Tracing 3
(natural scale no lettering)
Solanum palinacanthum: Fig 26 young circumnutate arched. hypocotyl just emerge fr the [ground] with the 2 legs tied together; (protected from light ); long (filament affixed obliquely to the summit of the arch), traced in darkness on Horizontal glass from 9º 20' a.m on the 17th of December to 8º 30 on the 19th. Trace Movement of bead at end of filament magnified 13 times, but the filament was an [illeg] long one & [illeg]
(2
des: quote the two forms as the long-styled & short-styled.) Sexual … plants present analogous
(The In the long-styled form of the cowslip (P. veris, vel officinalis) the stigma projects just
[Proof sheet of Forms of flowers, p. 15, pasted on:] Fig. 1
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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