RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1877?].12.17-19. Solanum palinacanthum / Proof sheet of Forms of flowers. CUL-DAR209.4.374-375. 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
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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 9° 20' a.m on the 17th of December to 8° 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
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