RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1880.02.21. Ch III. Radicles. CUL-DAR209.5.226. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. 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-DAR209.5 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).

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Feb 21 — 1880

Ch III. Radicles

The lateral branch of spruce, which has risen so greatly & was not pinched is 8 cm long— the one lateral pinched is 7 cm & the Leader only 5 cm.— I do not know whether unpinched leaders are generally longer than the laterals.—

 

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