RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1877.12.18-28. Bean (Vicia faba) / Proof sheet of Forms of flowers. CUL-DAR209.4.408-412. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 9.2022. RN3

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).


[408-409]

Bean.

Dec. 18th

Diagram I

11°. 55 Dec. 18'
1. 40
2. 55
3. 55
5. 23
6. 51
8°. 30'
9. 24
10. 44 P.m. Dec. 18
⨀ 6°. 45 a.m. Dec. 19th

[409]

Plumule tied

Bean.

Diagram II

3° .P.m Dec. 19th
3. 55
5. 10
6
7. 20'
9. 35
10. 50' P.m 19th
7° a.m. Dec. 20'
8. 7. a.m
x—  This ought to be joined  ought to be joined
9
9. 30'
8°. 53
10. 45

[410-411]

New Bean

New seedling Bean Dec. 20, 21, 22d

Plumule tied

Diagram III

[411]

1/2 scale

Common Bean

Circumnutation of Free Plumule

Dec. 20' 9° a.m
P.m 10. 45
Dec. 21' 6. 50 a.m
4. 55'
7. 25
9. 5
10 50 P.m
Dec. 22 6 55 a.m
8. 10
— tip of plumule freed itself
10. 15' P.m
card. 6. 50' a.m Dec. 23

(Fig. 15)

8. 55' a.m. Dec. 26'
1° 45
5. 15'
8. 25'
11° P.m 26th
6. 50 a.m. Dec 27
8. 35 a.m
11°. 20

2. 8
7°. 15'
10. 25 P.m 27th
6. 50 am 28th
11 am 28th

Tracing M.

(1/2 scale no lettering)

[412]

V. f. circumnutation of young epicotyl, still [illeg] bent; traced in darkness on horizontal glass during 50 hrs.— Origin as magnified [movement] of end of filament magnified 20 times, here reduced to 1.2 scale.

[412v]

[Proof sheet of Forms of flowers, p. 244]

(Heading left side Concluding Remarks // right side on Heterostyled Plants.)


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