RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [after 1862]. Abstract of Vaucher, Histoire physiologique des plantes d'Europe. CUL-DAR209.6.187. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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-DAR209.6 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
Jean-Pierre-Etienne Vaucher. 1841. Histoire physiologique des plantes d'Europe. There is an annotated copy of Vaucher 1841 in the Darwin Library-CUL.
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* (a) The flowers are arranged at first in four rows, but as Vaucher remarks (Hist. Phys. des Plantes d' Europe. Tom. 3 p 552, 1841) they all turn to one of the sides, independently of the action of light, & this he considers a "phénomène assez inexplicable." But he does did not seem notice that the flowers are arranged all turned to the inner side of the arch; had they remained on the outer or convex surface, they would have been badly abraded in being pushed to the surface
It is also a remarkable fact that the rhizomes when they break through the ground in the spring (March 20-30) secrete such a surprising quantity of water that the ground is quite softened to a distance of at least six inches all round each flower-stem, & this must greatly facilitate their emergence.
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