RECORD: Darwin, Francis. 1879.05.07. Beans. CUL-DAR209.5.73. 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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May 7. 79 The half bean (caustic) drawn with camera— The line shows the limit between root cap & root & the black shows the amount of injury which is certainly present. The blackening of root cap may perhaps go a little further towards the base of the root. At the apex there are 2 or 3 rows of cells on the root side of the line between root & root cap which are yellow


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