RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1880]. Fig 57. Cyclamen panicum. CUL-DAR209.4.7. 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

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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Cyclamen panicum

[Movement in plants, p. 77: "Cyclamen does not produce any distinct stem, and only a single cotyledon appears at first;* its petiole breaks through the ground as an arch (Fig. 57).
* This is the conclusion arrived at by Dr. H. Gressner ('Bot. Zeitung,' 1874, p. 837), who maintains that what has been considered by other botanists as the first true leaf is really the second cotyledon, which is greatly delayed in its development.]

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R. secondary radicles C. the single cotyledon developed long before its fellow

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