The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1877].11.06. Beet (Beta vulgaris) / Proof sheet of Forms of flowers. CUL-DAR209.4.50. (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. RN2

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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Beet

Nov 6' dark rm.

Banked up — movements of Cotyledons

Left Hand Vertical Glass	Right Hand
Lower dot	Higher dot
8. 48	8. 45
9. 55 rising	9. 55 rising
Glass changed
10. 43 Lower dot left Plant	10. 43 Higher dot right-Hand Plant
11 . 33 risen & to right mark pressing against opposite (Cot. cut off) This prevented so much rising	risen 11° 33 & to left
11° 40 new large dot. on old line	11— 40 ———
12° 15 Confusion	12° 15 risen
risen 1°	risen 1°
risen somewhat ziz-zage 2°	2° much risen Used & useless
risen 3° & to left	3° to left
3° 25 plants with (I see stem has gone	Cots open above sand.)
to the right 4' 5 up. 6° down 7°. 15 up (I think nutating (not asleep) 9. 10' I think nutating do 10 25→	} 4° down! 5 down.! 6° down are movements put out by darkness ?? 7° 15 a right little down nutating 9. 10. do

→ Not asleep

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[Proof sheet of Forms of flowers, published pp. 114-16]

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